Danish naturalist and artist born Praesto 1858. Arrived in England in 1892. He developed into a skilled artist and illustrated a large number of important ornithological books between 1895 and 1930, providing the drawings in watercolours. Book Illustrations : C W Beebe A Monograph of the Pheasants 1918-22; HE Howards monograph of the British warblers published in 1907-14; G M Matthews the Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Island London 1928 a book from which several plates were copied on postage stamps issued by Norfolk Island in 1970.