David Morrison Reid Henry

David Morrison Reid Henry (born September 14, 1919 in Colombo , Ceylon , † September 26, 1977 in Salisbury , Rhodesia ), sometimes also written Reid-Henry, was a British bird illustrator.

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Reid Henry was the second son of Olive Hobday and George Morrison Reid Henry , a famous entomologists , ornithologists and animal painter, among other things, the work of Indian Hill Birds by Salim Ali Illustrated (1949) and in 1955 the book A Guide to the Birds of Ceylon published . In 1929 Reid Henry came to England with his older brother Bruce, where they lived with Reverend George Hicks. Reid Henry was educated at Cochester Royal Grammar School and Mount Radford School in Exeter . After graduating from school, he did some spiritual work, but when World War II broke out in 1939 he joined the Tank Corps , where he achieved the rank of captain. He served in Egypt and elsewhere in North Africa. After a serious illness, he was transferred to the military police in Calcutta. He then served in Singapore and finally Ceylon. In 1946 he was released from military service. During the war Reid Henry made his first bird sketches, from 1946 he worked as a professional bird draftsman. In 1964 he was a founding member of the Society of Wildlife Artists . Reid Henry was artistically influenced by George Edward Lodge , who was also his mentor. However, he had no formal art training. Reid Henry illustrated the works Birds of Arabia by Col. Richard Meinertzhagen (1954), Birds of Cyprus by David A. Bannerman (1958), Popular Handbook of Rarer British Birds by PAD Hollom (1960), The Birds of the Atlantic Islands (1963–1968) by David A. Bannerman, A New Dictionary of Birds by Arthur Landborough Thomson (1964), A Falcon in the Field by Jack Mavrogordato (1966) and Eagles, Hawsks and Falcons of the World by Dean Amadon and Leslie H Brown (1968). In 1979 the posthumous work An Exhibition of the Bird Studies and Sketches of David Reid-Henry was published . 1973 Reid Henry emigrated to Rhodesia.

literature

• Bruce Henry: Highlight the Wild: The Art of the Reid Henrys ; Palaquin Publishing Ltd., Hartley Wintney, Hampshire; 1986 ISBN 0-906814-01-4
• Hosking, E (1977): Obituary: David Morrison Reid-Henry (1919-1977) . British Birds 70: 539-541. ISSN  0007-0335 .

Web links

• David Morrison Reid Henry on artnet