Adrien Taunay the Younger (1803 – 5 January 1828) was a French painter and draftsman. He was born in Paris in 1803, the son of history and

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(1755–1830). Adrien moved to

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in 1816, accompanying his father, who was a member of the French Artistic Mission. Adrien was the junior draftsman aboard the French vessel of exploration ''Uranie'', commanded by Captain

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. During the ship's 22-day stay in Hawaii in 1819, Adrien Taunay working with the official artist

Jacques Arago Jacques Étienne Victor Arago (6 March 1790 – 27 November 1855) was a French writer, artist and explorer, author of a ''Voyage Round the World''. Biography Jacques was born in Estagel, Pyrénées-Orientales. He was the brother of François Ara ...

(1790–1855), produced many portraits and natural history drawings. They depicted the local people and landscape at a time when Hawaii was becoming a whaling center and part of the trade route with China. After completion of this voyage, Adrien returned to Rio de Janeiro in 1820, and devoted himself to the study of arts and languages. He succeeded

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(1802–1858), to the position of first draughtsman of the exhibition led by the Consul Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff (1774–1852), which between the years 1825 to 1829 navigated the rivers of the Brazilian states of

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and

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. After traveling for two years, they arrived in

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, where they remained for approximately a year. Langsdorff then decided to split the expedition into two groups, which, after following different routes, would meet in the city of

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. The group consisting of Adrien Taunay and the botanist

Ludwig Riedel Ludwig Riedel (2 March 1790, Berlin, Germany – 6 August 1861, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a German botanist. Riedel described relatively few species himself, but collected hundreds of new species, many named after him. The genus '' Riedelia'' ( ...

(1791–1861) had the task of following the rivers Guaporé and

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. On this journey, they reached Vila Bela de Mato Grosso, in December 1827. After a number of trips around the settlements and having separated from Riedel, Adrien Taunay got lost in the forest. He finally managed to locate the bank of the Guaporé river, but drowned while trying to cross it in January 1828. The

Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. The museum has one of the largest single co ...

and the

National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta ...

are among the public collections holding works of Adrien Taunay the Younger.

References

* Forbes, David W., "Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941", Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 25-73.

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File:Adrien Taunay the Younger, 'Governor Cox of Maui', 1819, ink & watercolor over graphite.jpg, ''Governor Cox of Maui'', ink and watercolor over graphite by Adrien Taunay the Younger, 1819,

Image:'Green Parrot', watercolor painting by Adrien Taunay the younger, c. 1819, National Library of Australia.jpg, ''Green Parrot'', watercolor painting by Adrien Taunay the Younger, c. 1819,

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