A Common Paradise Kingfisher, a Kingfisher, a Wallcreeper, and a Steller’s Jay perched on branches

Auguste Pelletier was a French illustrator living in London. He painted birds, fruit and occasionally landscapes. He regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Old Watercolour Society and the Royal Watercolour Society. Together with almost scientific representations of single birds against empty backgrounds, Pelletier also produced more pictorial compositions with multiple birds in colorful gouaches like the present one.