Illustration d'Hawkins' studio dans le Parc Central d'Arsenal, avec des modèles d'animaux éteints. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (8 février 1807 - 27 janvier 1894) était un sculpteur français, l'histoire naturelle de l'artiste et de biologiste. Il a été nommé sous-super
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Illustration of Hawkins' studio at the Central Park Arsenal, with models of extinct animals. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (February 8, 1807 - January 27, 1894) was an English sculptor, natural history artist, and zoologist. He was appointed assistant superintendent of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. The following year (1852), he was appointed by the Crystal Palace company to create 33 life-size concrete models of extinct dinosaurs to be placed in the south London park to which the great glass exhibition hall was to be relocated. In this work, which took some three years, he collaborated with Richard Owen and other leading scientific figures of the time. In 1868, he traveled to America to deliver a series of lectures. Working with Joseph Leidy, he designed and cast the world's first mounted dinosaur skeleton of Hadrosaurus foulkii which was displayed at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He was later commissioned to produce models for New York City's Central Park museum similar to these he had created in Sydenham. He established a studio on the modern site of the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, and planned to create a Paleozoic Museum, but the project was shelved in 1870. He then turned to dinosaur skeleton reconstruction working at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, at Princeton University (then called the College of New Jersey) in Princeton, New Jersey, and at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia. He returned to England in 1878. He suffered a debilitating stroke in 1889 and died in 1894 at the age of 86.
