Joseph Wolf was a German artist who specialized in natural history illustration. He moved to the British Museum in 1848 and became the preferred illustrator for explorers and naturalists including David Livingstone, Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates.
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Aye-aye, Daubentonia madagascariensis
Plate from Traité de fauconnerie, which contains Wolf's first published works
A cartoon by Wolf, the inscription reads "Highly learned makes a fool".
Circus wolfi was named after Wolf in 1865, but the older name Circus approximans has priority.
Grave of Joseph Wolf in Highgate CemeteryArtists born in the 1820s 6
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Joseph Wolf was a German artist who specialized in natural history illustration. He moved to the British Museum in 1848 and became the preferred illustrator for explorers and naturalists including David Livingstone, Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates. Wolf depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art. Sir Edwin Landseer thought him "...without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived".
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