{"product_id":"gronvold-henrik","title":"Gronvold Henrik","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDate: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEngraver: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTechnique:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrice: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvinance:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenrik Grønvold was born in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pr%C3%A6st%C3%B8\"\u003ePræstø\u003c\/a\u003e, Denmark. He was the son of Hans Peter Levin Grønvold (1822–84) and Wilhelmine Marie Cathrine Lassen (1821–65). He had an early interest in natural history, and an early aptitude for natural history art. In 1880, he to \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Copenhagen\"\u003eCopenhagen\u003c\/a\u003e to learn machine drawing at the Copenhagen Technica College. After graduation, he worked first as a draughtsman of the Royal Danish Army artillery a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drawing\"\u003edraughtsman\u003c\/a\u003e and an illustrator at the Biological Research Station of Copenhagen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1892, Grønvold left Denmark intending to emigrate to the United States. While stopping in London en route, he was employed at the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natural_History_Museum,_London\"\u003eNatural History Museum\u003c\/a\u003e preparing anatomical specimens.\u003csup\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henrik_Gr%C3%B8nvold#cite_note-Pasquier-2\"\u003e[2]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e His Swedish born wife, Josefine Josefina Wilhelmina Hillstrøm (1869-1935), joined him a year later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenrik Grønvold became a skilled taxidermist, and established a reputation as an artist. He was employed at the Museum until 1895, when he accompanied WilliamOgilvie Grant on an expedition to the Salvage Islands. After this expedition, Grønvold worked at the Museum in an unofficial capacity as an artist for decades, and only left London to attend an ornithological congress in Berlin.\u003csup\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henrik_Gr%C3%B8nvold#cite_note-nhm-1\"\u003e[1]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henrik_Gr%C3%B8nvold#cite_note-Pasquier-2\"\u003e[2]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis illustrations largely appeared in scientific periodicals such as the Proceedings and Translations of the zoological Society, The Ibis and the Avicultural Magazine. In these publications, he drew plates for William Ogilvie-Grant, George Albert Boulenger, and Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas, among others. Grønvold also completed numerous plates for \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Rothschild\"\u003eWalter Rothschild\u003c\/a\u003e, many of which appeared in Rothschild's journal Novitates Zoologicae. Grønvold mostly illustrated birds and eggs, rare and newly discovered species from many parts of the world, and mostly worked in lithographs. His egg plates include some of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_auk\"\u003egreat auk\u003c\/a\u003e eggs made for Alfred Newton. He made some depictions of mammals as well, and the Natural History Museum collection has oil paintings of apes he made for Rothschild.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the books he illustrated were \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Ernest_Shelley\"\u003eGeorge Shelley\u003c\/a\u003e's \u003cem\u003eBirds of Africa\u003c\/em\u003e, which contained 57 plates, many of species that had not been illustrated before. He illustrated Walter Buller’s books on the birds of New Zealand, Brabourne's \u003cem\u003eBirds of South America\u003c\/em\u003e, Henry Elliot Howard’s \u003cem\u003eThe British Warblers\u003c\/em\u003e (1907–14), Charles William Beebe’s  \u003cem\u003eA Monograph of the Pheasants\u003c\/em\u003e (1918–22), and Herbert Christopher Robinson’s The Birds of the Malay Peninsula. (1929–76). He completed 600 hand-coloured plates for twelve volumes of \u003cem\u003eThe Birds of Australia\u003c\/em\u003e (1910–27) by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gregory_Macalister_Mathews\"\u003eGregory Macalister Mathews\u003c\/a\u003e. Grønvold subsequently provided numerous illustrations for Mathews' \u003cem\u003eThe Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands\u003c\/em\u003e ... (1928) and \u003cem\u003eA Supplement to The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands\u003c\/em\u003e ... (1936) – some of the last publications that were issued with hand-coloured plates.\u003csup\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henrik_Gr%C3%B8nvold#cite_note-Pasquier-2\"\u003e[2]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a commemoration of his contributions to bird art, the Guinean-Ivory Coast ranged, African \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rufous-naped_lark\"\u003erufous-naped lark\u003c\/a\u003e subspecie Mirafra Africana Henrici was named for him in 1930 by George Latimer Bates\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrønvold died at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bedford,_England\"\u003eBedford, England\u003c\/a\u003e, in 1940. His daughter Elsa Ayres (1899–1985) became a skilled portrait painter and was married to British sculptor Arthur James John Ayres (1902–1985). \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquarian Print Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31934412882006,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/antiquarianprintshop.com\/products\/gronvold-henrik","provider":"Antiquarian Print Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}