Samuel Daniell

Samuel Daniell (1775 – 16 December 1811) was a British painter of natural history and other scenes in Africa and Ceylon.

Daniell is perhaps best known as the appointed artist for a 1799-1802 expedition to South Africa and the renderings he did there of African animals.

[3] The drawings he made in southern Africa, including a journey to Bechuanaland, were published by his brother William Daniell in London.

[1][3] Daniell later lived in Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon, from 1806 to 1811, when he died from tropical fever.

[3][4] His brother William published twelve of his drawings in 1806, with the title: A Picturesque Illustration of the Scenery, Animals and Native Inhabitants of Ceylon.