Musée No:379.016 Size:A3 - 420mm x 297mm He was a co-founder of

He was a co-founder of the Linnean Society in 1788

when he was named director of the National Gallery of Art (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum) in 1920

He was a pioneer of the movement to protect birds from the plume trade and was a co-founder of the Plumage League

Sawrey Gilpin

for example one of his most famous works - Symphony in White

Musée No:379.016 Size:A3 - 420mm x 297mm He was a co-founder ofOn The Seekonk Artist: Edward Mitchell Bannister Date: 1828 1901 1828 1901 Bannister, a Black CanadianAmerican Tonalist painter was the son of a black immigrant from Barbados. Initially a seaman, he settled in Boston, where he made a living as a hairdresser and as a hand tinter of photographs. He began his professional practice as a photographer and portraitist. With the encouragement of his wife, Christiana Carteaux, he turned to painting and his