Editing Nathaniel Everett Green

{{short description|English painter}}
{{For|those of a similar name|Nathaniel Greene (disambiguation)|Nathan Green (disambiguation)}}

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'''Nathaniel Everett Green''' [[Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society|FRAS]]<ref name="obit_mnras">{{cite journal
   | title = Nathaniel Everett Green
   | journal = [[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]]
   | volume = 60
   | number = 5
   | pages = 318–320
   | publisher = [[Royal Astronomical Society]]
   | date = 1900
   | bibcode = 1900MNRAS..60Q.318.
   | doi=10.1093/mnras/60.5.318a
| doi-access = free
   }}</ref> (21 August 1823 – 10 November 1899) was an [[England|English]]  [[Painting|painter]], art teacher and [[astronomer]]. He professionally painted landscapes and portraits, and also gained fame with his drawings of [[planets]].<ref name="obit_obs">{{cite journal
   | title = Obituary—Nathaniel E. Green
   | journal = [[The Observatory (journal)|The Observatory]]
   | volume = 23
   | issue = 288
   | pages = 67–68
   | date = 1900
   | bibcode = 1900Obs....23...65.
   | url = http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full//seri/Obs../0023//0000067.000.html
}}</ref>

[[File:Nathaniel Green Mars map -556069113.jpg|thumb|200px|Nathaniel Green's Mars map]]

Born in [[Bristol]], the son of Benjamin Holder Green (1793–1865), then a haberdasher, and Elizabeth ‘Betsey’ née Everett (1795–1837); his interest in [[astronomy]] dated from 1859 when he built a telescope for himself. He produced "soft-pencil" drawings of [[Mars]] in 1877, which were widely known. Shortly after drawing them, he was the first to suggest that [[Martian canals|canals on Mars]] were an [[optical illusion]].

In 1880 he was called to [[Balmoral Castle|Balmoral]] and taught art to some members of the royal family, including [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]].

He was founding member of the [[British Astronomical Association]] (BAA) and its president from 1896 to 1898.<ref name=jbaa7_1_9>{{citation | title=Officers and Council for the Year, Oct. 1896, to Oct. 1897 | journal=Journal of the British Astronomical Association | volume=7 | issue=1 | page=9 | date=October 1896 | bibcode=1896JBAA....7....9. }}</ref><ref name=jbaa8_1_10>{{citation | title=Officers and Council for the Year, Oct. 1897, to Oct. 1898 | journal=Journal of the British Astronomical Association | volume=8 | issue=1 | page=10 | date=October 1897 | bibcode=1897JBAA....8....1.}}</ref>

Green married Elizabeth Goold in 1847. Their daughter, Anne Goold Green, married English landscape painter [[Laurence George Bomford]].

A [[Green (Martian crater)|crater on Mars]] was named in his honor.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040217145442/http://www.britastro.com/mars/historic.htm N.E. Green biography at BAA]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040705172506/http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/mars/chap05.htm Description of the 1877 Mars opposition observation campaign] 
*"Observations of Mars, at Madeira, in August and September 1877", ''Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society'', Vol. 44, p[https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1879MmRAS..44..123G 123]

===Obituaries===
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0060//0000318.000.html MNRAS '''60''' (1900) 318]
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/Obs../0023//0000067.000.html Obs '''23''' (1900) 67]

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