North, Marianne (1830-1890)

Painted Australian plants in oils. She met with Ellis Rowan while on an expedition through Australia and taught her how to paint in oil. Her work is on exhibition in a specially built gallery at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew.

References: M.Rix The Art of the Plant World (1981); L.deBray The Art of Botanical Illustration (1989); M.North, A Vision of Eden (1993); W.Blunt & W.T.Stearn The Art of Botanical Illustration 2^nd edn (1994); H.Hewson Australia - 300 Years of Botanical Illustration (1999)