William C. Harris

English officer in the army of the Eat India Company. Rose the the rank of Major. Arrived in South Africa in 1836, staying there for two years while recovering from sickness. A passionate big game hunter, he and others organized a trip into the interior of Africa, shooting, and recording many of the large game found there. "Harris was one of the more notable of the early Victorian travellers, and his illustrations of the large African fauna were the first to have any claim to accuracy. He hunted on a ruthless scale, even as he wrote with passion about the regions he crossed, and painted the animals he encountered with great attention to detail. He was not an outstanding artist, but his paintings and sketches have great charm and spirit and have considerably enriched natural history art." Wikipedia