Musée No:379.026 canal He was imprisoned by the

He was imprisoned by the French for nearly 5 years on a charge of espionage (trumped up he claimed) for allegedly carrying messages to and from William

painting portraits

) nature - believe me if you were a little woodland creature these would not be beauties you would want to meet

illustrator and author from Lancashire

he designed several major public buildings

Musée No:379.026 canal He was imprisoned by theAutumn Tangle Artist: William Henry Holmes Date: 1920 William Henry Holmes, (1846 1933), was an American explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, scientific illustrator, cartographer, mountain climber, geologist and museum curator and director. While studying under Theodor Kaufmann in 1871 in Washington, D. C., he met Fielding B. Meek of the Smithsonian Institution, who hired him to illustrate his palaeontological reports. This was Holmess