Career
Daniell is perhaps best known as the appointed artist for an expedition to Africa and the renderings he did there of African animals. In December, 1799, he went to South Africa for the first time. During the trip to Bechuanaland he was named the official secretary and artist for the trip.
The trip went from Cape of Good Hope to Bechuanaland.
He returned to England from the trip and co-published with William Daniell and Thomas Daniell, African Scenery and Animals, in 1804. He later on lived in Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon, from 1806 to his death from tropical fever.
