Christine E. Jackson

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Christine Elisabeth Jackson , FLS , (born Adams; born March 6, 1936 in Huddersfield , West Yorkshire ) is an English author and biographer . She specializes in biographies on animal painting and animal illustration, particularly bird illustration.

life and work

Jackson is the daughter of Arthur and Helen Jane Adams, née Rowland. From 1953 to 1960 she worked as the reference librarian in the Huddersfield Public Library. In 1959 she graduated from the Manchester Library School and became a member of the Library Association UK. In September 1960 she married Andrew Bairstow Jackson, a librarian. From 1960 to 1965 she was a librarian at the College of Further Education in Bedford and from 1967 to 1969 at the Hertfordshire County Library in Radlett .

Since the 1960s she has been researching animal painting, not only researching the artist, but also the provenance of the pictures and illustrations. Her first book, British Names of Birds , was published in 1968, followed by Bird Illustrators, some artists in early lithography in 1975. Collecting Birdstamps was published in 1977 , for which she was awarded a bronze medal at the British Philatelic Exhibition in 1978. In 1978 Wood Engravings of Birds and 1985 Bird Etchings: The Illustrators and Their Books, 1655-1866 was published. In 1992 the biography Prideaux John Selby: A gentleman naturalist about Prideaux John Selby was published . In 1993 and 1994 the two volumes The Old Masters and The 18th Century of the work Great Bird Paintings of the World were published . In 1999 Jackson published the Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World , which lists over 4,000 biographical entries by artists from several centuries. In 2001, in collaboration with Peter Davis, the biography Sir William Jardine: A Life in Natural History about Sir William Jardine came out. In 2003 she published the book Sarah Stone: Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds about the artist and naturalist Sarah Stone (1760-1844). In 2006 the book Peacock was published , a work about blue peacocks and green peafowl in art. In 2012 Jackson published the book Fish in Art , in which she gives a historical overview of the representation of fish from 2000 BC to the present. In 2014 she published the book John James Laforest Audubon: An English Perspective about John James Audubon's time in England. In 2015 the Ray Society publisher published Menageries in Britain 1100-2000 on the history of menageries in the United Kingdom . They also written articles on bird illustrators in various journals, including Archives of National History , the Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History and The Bird Observer and entries for the General dictionary of artists of De Gruyter and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Jackson is a member of the Linnean Society of London , the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and the Society for the History of Natural History , where she served on the board of directors from 1992 to 1995. In 1996 she was awarded the Founder's Medal by this society.

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SURNAME Jackson, Christine E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jackson, Christine Elisabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English author and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Huddersfield , West Yorkshire