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See also:THAYER, See also:ABBOTT HANDERSON (1849— ) , See also:American artist, was See also:born at See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, on the 12th of See also:August 1849. He was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of J. L. See also:Gerome at the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts, See also:Paris, and became a member of the Society of American Artists (1879), of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design (1901), and of the Royal Academy of See also:San Luca, See also:Rome. As a painter of portraits, landscapes, animals and the ideal figure, he won high See also:rank among American artists. Among his best-known pictures are, " Virgin Enthroned," " Caritas," " In Memoriam, See also:Robert See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:Stevenson," and " Portrait of a See also:Young Woman "; and he did some decorative See also:work for the See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
Walker See also:Art See also:Building, See also:Bowdoin See also:College, See also:Maine. Thayer is also well known as a naturalist. He See also:developed a theory of " protectivecoloration " in animals (see See also:COLOURS OF ANIMALS), which has attracted considerable See also:attention among naturalists. According to this theory, " animals are painted by nature darkest on those parts which tend to be most lighted by the See also:sky's See also:light, and See also:vice versa "; and the See also:earth-See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown of the upper parts, bathed in sky-light, equals the skylight See also:colour of the belly, bathed in earth-yellow and See also:shadow.
See his See also:article, " The See also:Law which underlies Protective Coloration," in the See also:Annual See also:Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1897 (See also:Washington, 1898) ; and Concealing Coloration in the See also:Animal See also:Kingdom (New See also:York, 1910), a See also:summary of his discoveries, by his son, Gerald H. Thayer.
End of Article: THAYER, ABBOTT HANDERSON (1849— )
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