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An animalier is an artist, mainly from the 19th century, who specializes in, or is known for, skill in the realistic portrayal of animals. "Animal painter" is the more general term for earlier artists
A lion killing a boar by Frans Snyders
Eagle by Henri Alfred Jacquemart on the Paris Garnier Opera
A bronze sculpture of a partridge with gilt patination by Jules Moigniez, c. 1880
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An animal painter is an artist who specialises in the portrayal of animals.
Animalier
…animalier (, UK also ) is an artist, mainly from the 19th century, who specializes in, or is known for, skill in the realistic portrayal of animals. "Animal painter" is the more general term for earlier artists. Although the work may be in any genre or format, the term is most often applied to sculptors and painters…
George Stubbs (1724–1806): Whistlejacket (c. 1762), National Gallery
Frans Snyders and workshop, The boar hunt, c. 1650.
Antoine-Louis Barye, Jaguar Devouring a Hare, 1850
Dogs fighting by Frans Snyders, who probably left the landscape background to another kind of specialist.