Person

North, Marianne (1830 - 1890)

Born
24 October 1830
Hastings, Sussex, Australia
Died
30 August 1890
Alderley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Occupation
Botanical artist

Summary

Marianne North was a painter of wildflowers who, in middle-age, travelled the world pursuing her vocation. Starting in 1871 she made a number of journeys over the next 14 years, visiting five continents and 17 countries including, between August 1880 and January 1881, Australia. While in Western Australia she met fellow artist, Ellis Rowan, and taught her how to paint with oils. The Marianne North Gallery in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which was built during her lifetime, houses over 830 of her paintings arranged as she wished.

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Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
  • McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Books

  • North, Marianne, A vision of Eden : the life and work of Marianne North (Exeter: Webb &​ Bower, 1980), 240 pp. Details
  • Payne, Michelle, Marianne North: a very intrepid painter (Richmond: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2016), 96 pp. Details

Edited Books

  • Vellacott, Helen ed., Some recollections of a happy life : Marianne North in Australia & New Zealand (Melbourne, VIC: Edward Arnold Australia, ), 128 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Anderson, M., 'A monumental autobiography: Marianne North's Gallery at Kew Gardens', Limnia: a journal of historical and cultural studies, 9 (2003), 59-77. Details
  • Dowe, J. L., 'Marianne North's paintings of Australian gardens, 1880-81', Australian garden history, 30 (1) (2018), 12-5. Details
  • Dowe, John L., 'The Australian paintings of Marianne North, 1880 - 1881: landscapes "doomed shortly to disappear"', Cunninghamia, 20 (2020), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.7751/cunninghamia.2020.20.001. Details
  • Losano, A., 'A preference for vegetables: the travel writings and botanical art of Marianne North', Women’s studies, 26 (5) (1997), 423-48. Details
  • Ryall, A., 'The world according to Marianne North, a nineteenth-century female Linnaean', Tijdschrift voor Skandinavistiek, 29 (1/2) (2008), 195-218. Details

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