Peter Brown (naturalist)

Peter Brown (active 1758–1799) was an English naturalist and natural history illustrator of Danish ancestry who worked mainly in London.

Brown was an associate of the great English naturalists Thomas Pennant and Joseph Banks.

Though primarily an illustrator, he wrote the scientific descriptions of some species, such as the brightly marked North American Arctiid moth Haploa clymene.

Brown illustrated Emanuel Mendes da Costa's book, Elements of Conchology, or An Introduction to the Knowledge of Shells (1771).

[2] In 1776, Brown published his own work, New illustrations of Zoology,[2] "containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious, and non-descript birds, with a few quadrupeds, reptiles and insects.