(1813 - 1890)
As a young man French naval officer and watercolourist Theodore-Auguste Fisquet accompanied the expedition of French admiral Auguste Nicolas Vaillant. Although the chief aim of the voyage was to protect French merchant and whaling-vessels, it was also a scientific expedition. A number of Fisquet’s resulting drawings were reproduced in lithograph in the published account of the voyage, ‘Voyage autour du monde execute pendant les annees 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette La Bonite’. The publication included over 100 plates after drawings by Fisquet and others. Later, Fisquet became an Admiral in the French navy. His died at Fort Robinson, northwest Nebraska, on 11 January 1890.
