Notes

Samuel Daniell (1775–1811) was a British artist, naturalist and traveller who arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1799. He was appointed official artist to the Truter-Somerville expedition which left Cape Town in October 1801 to explore the northern and eastern regions of the Cape Colony and Bechuanaland (now Botswana). Daniell also travelled with John Barrow (the explorer who published Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa in 1806, the second edition of which was illustrated by Daniell) and his wife Anna Maria Truter, and paintings by all three now form part of the Museum Africa collection in Johannesburg. Daniell was for a while a painting companion of Lady Anne Barnard until a scandal erupted in which he accused her of tracing some of his work and passing it off as her own.¹ He published his work, with his own engravings, in London during his lifetime in African Scenery and Animals at the Cape of Good Hope (two volumes, 1804 and 1805), and posthumously, with engravings done by his brother William Daniell, in Sketches Representing the Native Tribes, Animals and Scenery of Southern Africa (1820) and Twenty Varied Subjects of the Tribe of Antelopes (1832). Daniell died from ‘tropical fever’ while living and working in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). 

1. Stephen Taylor (2016) Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard, London: Faber & Faber (https://books.google.co.za/books, unpaginated). 

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