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Ebenezer Edward (E. E.) Gostelow (18 December 1866 – 1944) was an Australian painter of flowers, birds and butterflies. ==Early life== Gostelow was born in Sydney to Edward Gostelow and his second wife, Martha Taylor. His father had emigrated from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England to Sydney in 1848 at the age of six. In 1883, Gostelow entered the Education Department of New South Wales as a probationary pupil teacher. In 1887 he won a scholarship, one of only 15 candidates selected state wide. He was awarded the coveted scholarship to the Teachers' Training College and later was awarded the Blue Ribbon and took charge of the First Class Schools. After his apprenticeship in the city he took charge of country schools and over the next 20 years he spent his time in Nundle on the Great Dividing Range near Tamworth and in Condobolin, Warren, Harden, Cootamundra and Broken Hill, where he became headmaster of South Public School. Roaming the state of New South Wales he soon acquired a keen interest in all forms of nature study and, while imparting his love of bird life to his classes with coloured chalk on the blackboard, discovered his natural gift as an artist. Without formal training, Gostelow embarked on a project to paint as many wild flowers and birds as he could. In 1890, Gostelow married Ada Mary Finney with whom he had three sons and a daughter. His youngest son, Clifford, shared his father's passion for nature study and on his father's death he inherited the collection of native flora paintings. In 1920 while Gostelow was in Broken Hill, the Barrier Field Naturalists Club held a wildflower show in the technical college. On of its purposes was to promote the study and protection of the area's wildflowers. The display included 150 botanical paintings by Gostelow. They were considered the highlight of the show. On retiring he reworked many of his earlier paintings to improve them as he considered them inaccurate. Gostelow also set out and achieved the huge task of painting all the known and recorded species of birds in Australia. His skill and integrity were well known and respected to the extent that the Australian Museum, amongst other institutions, loaned him stuffed birds from which he worked. His completed collection of 730 mostly life size paintings, illustrating the male and the female of each species with the flora native to their habitat also contained the Museum's registration number and explanatory notes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「E. E. Gostelow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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