Musée No:325.080 Size:A5 - 210mm x 148mm He received his artistic training

He received his artistic training in the French provinces and went to Italy when he was twenty-six years old to continue his education

(As a side note to the main story Stanley arrived in Zanzibar in late1877 to find letters Alice had written two years before telling of her marriage to Barney and the birth of their daughter – Stanley fell into a deep depression and didn’t reply to her

He was born in Ohio and studied architecture for a year before setting off around Europe on a Grand Tour in 1880

Morris Hunt was an American oil painter and sculptor born into a rich family in Vermont

I wonder whether he knew Jan Lievens (see 318

Musée No:325.080 Size:A5 - 210mm x 148mm He received his artistic trainingHippopotamus Artist: Charles Dessalines D'Orbigny Date: 1806 1876 Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French botanist and geologist. He was the younger brother of French naturalist and South American explorer, Alcide d'Orbigny. At the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, d'Orbigny identified many of the flowering plant species returned to France from his brother's natural history collecting journeys through South America. He was in charge