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Canadian artist (1937–2008)

James Fenwick Lansdowne, OC OBC RCA (August 8, 1937 – July 27, 2008) was a self-taught Canadianwildlifeartist.^[1]

Career

Lansdowne was born in Hong Kong of English parents and grew up in Victoria, British Columbia.

Stricken with polio at eleven months, he was nurtured by his mother, Edith Lansdowne, to walk.

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A painter herself, she also provided his first lessons in painting and continued to supply whatever help she could.^[2] Later, in high school, the staff of the Royal British Columbia Museum encouraged him in studying birds, and gave him a job as a laboratory assistant for three summers.

He held his first show in 1952 at the Royal British Columbia Museum when he was fourteen, his second show at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1956.^[2] He had his first international exhibition in New York in 1958 at the headquarters of the National Audubon Society.

In 1960, he had an exhibition at the Art G