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Margaret Ursula Mee, MBE (22 May 1909 – 30 November 1988) [1] was a British botanical artist who specialised in plants from the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest.She was also one of the first environmentalists to draw attention to the impact of large-scale mining and deforestation on the Amazon Basin.
By the time of her death on 17 June 1990, Barbara had become one of the world's leading botanical artists. A number of paintings and drawings have been donated to various botanical societies including some 250 plates and sketches given to the Library and Archive at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Rhona Brown (1922-2014), South African botanical artist; Margaret Warriner Buck (1857-1929), American botanical artist, specialized in depicting California wildflowers; Priscilla Susan Bury (1799–1872), English botanist and illustrator; Mildred Anne Butler (1858–1941), Irish artist who specialized in watercolour and oil painting
Lilian Snelling (1879–1972) was "probably the most important British botanical artist of the first half of the 20th century". [4] She was the principal artist and lithographer to Curtis's Botanical Magazine between 1921 and 1952 [ 5 ] and "was considered one of the greatest botanical artists of her time" – "her paintings were both detailed ...
Botanical illustrators paint or draw plants and sometimes their natural environment as well, forming a lineage where art and science meet. Some prefer to paint isolated specimen flowers while others prefer arrangements. Many botanical artists through the centuries have been active in collecting and cataloguing new species and/or in breeding plants.
The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, opened on 19 April 2008, at Kew Gardens is named after her. [4] It was the first gallery in the world dedicated solely to botanical art. Sherwood has been described as a "driving force behind a revival of interest in botanical art". [6] She is a vice-president of the Nature in Art Trust. [7]
South African botanical artist 1895-01-01 1985-05-03 South Africa: Daphne Osborne: Botanist 1930-03-07 2006-06-16 United Kingdom: Deborah M. Pearsall: American paleoethnobotany 1950 United States: Dianne Edwards: Palaeobotanist 1942 United Kingdom: Doris Löve: Swedish-Icelandic botanist (1918–2000) 1918-01-02 2000-02-25 Sweden: Dorothea Pertz
Rix has authored contributions in many major botanical texts including The European Garden Flora, Flora Europaea, Flora of Turkey, [3] the Kew Bulletin and has been editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine since 2003. [7] [3] He is the author of a number of books including Art of the Plant World, Art in Nature and Redoute Album. [5]