Cheryl Medow
 

Santa Barbara photographic artist Cheryl Medow creates images that entice the viewer to enter the natural world and envision her wild birds, in imaginary and real environments.   Medow layers her photographs, weaving them together to create visual narratives.

https://www.cherylmedow.com/abouttheartist

Tri-Colored Heron And A Skimmer
2017
Photograph
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
https://ogdenmuseum.org/exhibition/photonola-currents-2017/cheryl-medow-tri-colored-heron-and-a-skimmer-2017-courtesy-of-the-artist-and-pdnb-gallery-in-dallas-texas/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBVgC1pHHvN/
https://www.pdnbgallery.com/cherylmedow

 Sydney Long
(1871–1955 )
 

Sydney Long was an Australian artist. Originally inspired by the Heidelberg School of Australian impressionism, Long developed his own Symbolist approach to the Australian landscape, and by the 1910s had become Australia's foremost Art Nouveau painter. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Long

The Spirit of the Plains 
1914
Oil on canvas
76.8 x 153.7 cm
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/object/82425

George Edwards
(1694–1773)
 

George Edwards FRS was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology".

Over a period of 21 years, Edwards published seven volumes containing descriptions and hand-coloured etchings of birds. In a few cases, he depicted other animals. None of the species were native to the British Isles. The first four volumes were published between 1743 and 1751 with the title A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. The three subsequent volumes were published between 1758 and 1764 with the title Gleanings Of Natural History. The volumes contain a total of 362 hand-coloured etchings of which 317 depict birds. The etchings were all drawn by Edwards. He numbered the plates consecutively through the seven volumes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Edwards_(naturalist)

Bird Study: Bohemian Waxwing
c. 1714–73
watercolor with gouache
28.3 x 20.6 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland USA
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1989.230

Akseli Gallen-Kallela
 (1865–1931)
 

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (born Axel Waldemar Gallén) was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work is considered a very important aspect of the Finnish national identity. He finnicized his name from Gallén to Gallen-Kallela in 1907.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akseli_Gallen-Kallela

Great Black Woodpecker
1893
Gouache on paper
90 x 145 cm
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

Manuel Ocaranza
(1841 - 1882)
 

Manuel Egidio Ocaranza  was a Mexican painter, related to Costumbrismo. Considered one of the first modern artists in Mexico in the 19th century. Part of his work is exhibited at the National Museum of Art in Mexico City. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rowlandson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costumbrismo

 

The love of the Humming Bird
1869
Oil on canvas
100 × 145 cm
Museo Nacional de Arte, Ciudad de México, Mexico

Jean Clouet
(1480–1549)
 

Jean (or Janet or Jehannot) Clouet was a painter, draughtsman and miniaturist from the Burgundian Netherlands whose known active work period took place in France. He was court painter to French king Francis I. Together with his son François Clouet he is counted among the leading 16th century portrait painters working in France. They are particularly known for their accomplished drawings, using black chalk and pure red chalk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Clouet

Portrait of Marguerite of Navarre
c. 1527
oil on oak
62 × 52.5 cm
National Museums Liverpool, UK

Marmaduke Cradock
(1660–1716)

Marmaduke Cradock was an English painter of birds and other animals. Some older sources give his first name as Luke but this may be in error. Self taught, he produced art works that were rarely signed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmaduke_Cradock

Mallards on a Pond
Before 1716
oil on canvas
45 × 55 cm
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/explore/explore-the-collection/mallards-on-a-pond/