Jacques-Gérard Milbert

Milbert was a pupil of the landscape painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes,[1][2] and went on to teach drawing at the Parisian school of mines[2] – the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris – from 1795.

[1] Milbert returned to France, where in 1812 he published a series of views of Mauritius, the Cape Colony and Tenerife, titled Voyage pittoresque à l'Ile de France, au Cap de Bonne Espérence et à l'Ile de Ténériffe,[1][2] comprising two octavo volumes of text, and one quarto volume of plates.

[2] During his time there, he sent back 48 shipments of natural history specimens to the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.

[2] Milbert returned to France on 20 October 1823, and began teaching, again at the school of mines.

[2] He published several further volumes, including drawings from his travels in the United States.