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Famous wildlife artists

Some stunningly beautiful wildlife art from the most famous wildlife artists . . .

#1. Leonardo da Vinci. While he did few pieces of wildlife art, the few he did are lovely . . .

A beautiful sketch of a roaring lion, full of character and emotion. A masterpiece.

Leonardo also did a sketch of swans which is very beautiful.

#2. Picasso. He did several simple line-drawings of wild animals and birds.

So simple, yet superbly capturing the essense of penguin character.

The essense of camel . . .

The character of mouse!

The very essense of owlness !

Drawn with more expressive use of line, the ostrich sketch again captures character superbly.

#3. Durer. This German artist is well known for some of his beautiful wildlife art . . .

Durer’s “hare” is a superb piece of wildife art, with detailed and realistic rendering of the fur, and Durer’s own character invested in the artwork, as with all his works.

His rino is again an amazing piece of character-full artwork, although not all that accurate.

For more of Durer’s great wildlife art, click here.

#4. Landseer. One of the most popular artists of the romantic era.

For more great wildlife art by Landseer, click here.

#5. Stubbs. Another very well known romantic wildlife artist . . .

click here for the Stubbs page!

#6. Audubon. The most famous American bird artist.

See Audubon’s amazing bird art here . . .

#7. Marc. One of the best-known cubists, many of his paintings are about wildlife . . .

Marc’s amazing cubist wildlife art . . .

Click here for the most popular current wildlife art worldwide. You may be surprised what you find!

Probably the most famous of all bird artists, as well as the publisher of one of the finest picture books ever. For lots more info on this great artist, see Wildlife Art by artist :- Audubon, John James.

Audobon’s famous picture of a Louisiana Heron, from his famous book “Birds of America”. See the deep blues of the heron in charatristic pose, with its natural environment in the background. An amazing example of bird art.

“American Flamingo” . . . deep rosy color exotic and beautiful, in its native environment as see by Audubon on his extensive travels.

“warbler” . . . captures the delicacy of these small and beautiful birds more often heard than seen with their delicate plumage.

“snowy heron (white egret)” . . . a beautiful bird exquisitely illustrated here . . . the light fluffy delicacy of its delicate white plumage contrastaing with the pointed black bill. A fine example of classic bird art.