Augustus Earle was an English painter. Unlike earlier artists who worked outside Europe and were employed on voyages of exploration or worked abroad for wealthy, often aristocratic patrons, Earle was
Augustus Earle, Portrait of Bungaree, a native of New South Wales, with Fort Macquarie, Sydney Harbour, in background, (1826): oil on canvas; 68.5 x 50.5 cm. National Library of Australia
Scene on the quarterdeck of the HMS Beagle painted around 24 September 1832 most likely by Augustus Earle. Charles Darwin is the central figure in a top hat, examining a specimen.
Portrait of Robert Townson, c. 1826
Divine Service as it is Usually Performed on Board a British Frigate at Sea, c. 1836
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a co
Augustus Earle
…FitzRoy as artist supernumerary with victuals on the second voyage of HMS Beagle, working as topographical artist and draughtsman. He became friends with Charles Darwin, and in April and May 1832 they stayed in a cottage at Botafogo near Rio de Janeiro, but problems with his health forced him to leave the ship at…
A chalk drawing of the seven-year-old Darwin in 1816, with a potted plant, by Ellen Sharples. Part of a double portrait showing him together with his sister Catherine.
A bicentennial portrait by Anthony Smith of Darwin as a student, in the courtyard at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he had rooms.
Darwin (right) on the Beagle's deck at Bahía Blanca in Argentina, with fossils; caricature by Augustus Earle, the initial ship's artist