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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Published resources
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
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q271648. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/25408790. Details
- 'North, Marianne (1830-18901231)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-855123. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Marianne North Gallery: Online gallery', Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, http://www.kew.org/mng/gallery/index.html. Details
Christine Moje and Helen Cohn
Created: 6 August 2012, Last modified: 6 June 2022
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