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Cayley, Neville Henry Pennington (1853 - 1903) |
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| Artist and Ornithologist | ||
| Born: 1853 Kent, England. Died: 1903. | ||
| Neville Henry Pennington Cayley was the illustrator of Alfred John North's Descriptive Catalogue of the Nests and Eggs of Birds found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania (Sydney 1889). The same illustrations appeared later, on a reduced scale, in the Australian Encyclopaedia (1926), in which plates of birds and birds' eggs by his son, Neville William Cayley, also appeared. |
Career Highlights |
| Born Kent, England, 1853. Died 1903. Painted game-birds, often in groups, and such birds as kookaburras, magpies and blue wrens, all characterised by fine brush-work and attention to detail. He signed his work 'Neville Cayley'. Published a booklet, Australian Birds, containing 11 plates of birds. Commemorated by the Cayley Memorial Scholarship, available to second-year science students at the University of Sydney for research in economic ornithology, and funded by his son with a portion of the royalties of What Bird is That? |
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