Thomas William Wood
(1839 - 1910)
 

T. W. Wood was an English zoological illustrator responsible for the accurate drawings in major nineteenth-century works of natural history including Darwin's The Descent of Man and Wallace's The Malay Archipelago. He studied the courtship display behaviour of pheasants, observing them closely and publishing the first description of the double-banded argus pheasant. He illustrated many books, often of birds but also of moths and mammals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._W._Wood

Birds of Paradise
1862
Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
35.6 x 25.4 cm
Yale Ceter for British Art, New Haven, CT, US
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14150