Roelant Savery

Roelant Savery in Cornelis de Bie's Het Gulden Cabinet.
Painting of a forest filled with birds, including a dodo
Landscape with Birds showing a dodo in the lower right and an unknown macaw on the left, by Roelant Savery, 1628
One of the most famous paintings of a dodo, from 1626. The image came into the possession of the ornithologist George Edwards, who later gave it to the British Museum.[1] The same unknown macaw appears on the right

Roelant Savery (or Roeland(t) Maertensz Saverij, or de Savery, or many variants;[2] 1576 – buried 25 February 1639) was a Flanders-born Dutch Golden Age painter.

  1. ^ Mason, Adair Stuart (1 January 1992). George Edwards: The Bedell and His Birds. Royal College of Physicians. ISBN 9781873240489.
  2. ^ "ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)".