Happy Birthday Ernest T Seton!! Born in 1860 in England (Scottish descent) and then immigrating to Canada with his family in 1860, Seton became a US citizen in the late 1800's. Wildlife artist, author naturalist and quite an outdoorsman. Seton was also a founder of the Boy Scouts of America. He studied art in England at the Royal Academy and later in Paris. He was commissioned in 1885 to do 1000 mammal drawings for a dictionary. His painting Triumph of the Wolves is included below.
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