About the Artist: Sir Peter Scott was undoubtedly Britain's most significant 20th Century ornithologist, naturalist and conservationist. He was also a talented artist, and his wild bird paintings and drawings are immediately recognisable.

Sir Peter Markham Scott CH CBE DSC FRS (1909 - 1980) was the son of the Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Born in London, he became a naturalist, conservationist, ornithologist, artist, broadcaster and author, whose abiding passion was wildlife, and wildfowl and wild birds in particular.

Described as the 'father of conservation', he led a campaign for endangered wildlife that captured the imagination of a generation, and inspired many to care about wildlife long before it became fashionable to do so.

He founded the Severn Wildfowl Trust (now the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust or WWT) in 1946, and co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (now the World Wildlife Fund or WWF).

Peter Scott travelled the world painting rare birds, and was the founder President of the Society of Wildlife Artists. He was highly regarded as a wildlife artist, and had work accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy. In the period before and after the Second World War, Peter Scott was widely considered to be the most popular artist in the United Kingdom.

He held his first one-man exhibition at London art dealers Ackermann and Son Ltd. in 1933, and from 1935 up until about 1983 Ackermann published reproduction colour prints of Sir Peter's work. Many of the originals are in major private and public collections, while his bird art prints remain highly collectable today.