{"title":"North, Marianne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarianne North (1830-1890)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her plant and landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNorth was born in Hastings, England, the eldest daughter of a prosperous land-owning family descended from Roger North, younger son of Dudley North, 4th Baron North. Her father was Frederick North, a Norfolk Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace, and Liberal M.P. for Hastings. Her mother, Janet, was the daughter of Sir John Marjoribanks M.P., 1st Baronet of Lees in the County of Berwick. She was the eldest of three children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNorth trained as a vocalist under Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, but her voice failed, and she then devoted herself to painting flowers. After the death of her mother in 1855, she constantly travelled with her father, who was then member of parliament for Hastings; and on his death in 1869 she decided to pursue her early ambition of painting the flora of distant countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe family had homes in Hastings and London in this period. Her interest in botany may have stemmed from her father's acquaintance with Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Her first watercolour landscapes were undertaken on a trip to Europe with her sister and father.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter her sister married in 1864 and her father lost his seat in parliament, the two spent even more time travelling, visiting Switzerland and the South Tyrol. They travelled in Syria and along the Nile in 1865-67. Her father became ill in the Alps in 1869, and she brought him back to Hastings, where he died. She continued to paint as a way to assuage her grief. After his death, she travelled and made paintings in Sicily.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1871-1872, she travelled to Canada, the United States and Jamaica, and spent a year in Brazil, where she did much of her work at a hut in the depths of a forest. North was encouraged to visit South America by Frederic Edwin Church, whom she considered \"the greatest of living landscape painters\" and whose home in New York, Olana, she visited twice. In 1875, after a few months in Tenerife, she began a journey round the world, and for two years painted the flora of California, Japan, Borneo, Java and Ceylon. During her visits to California, she recorded her concern with the destruction of the redwoods. She spent all of 1878 in various parts of India.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1878 The Graphic reported an exhibition of Marianne North's works at Kensington, in which 512 of her oil paintings were put on public display. In a long article, the critic praised North for \"her freedom of hand, the purity and brilliancy of colour and the accurate draughtsmanship of a consummate artist\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn her return to Britain, North exhibited a number of her drawings in London. She offered to give the collection to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and to erect a gallery to house them. This offer was accepted, and the new buildings, designed by James Fergusson, were begun that year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt Charles Darwin's suggestion, North went to Australia in 1880, and for a year painted there and in New Zealand. On her return, she presented Darwin the shrub 'Australian Sheep' (Raoulia eximia) as a gift and showed him her Australian pictures. Her gallery at Kew was opened in 1882. On display for the opening of the gallery were 800 oil on cardboard paintings, which represented twenty years of North's life and travels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1883, after a visit to South Africa, during which trip she called on the botanical artist Katharine Saunders, an additional room was opened at the Kew gallery, and in 1884-1885 North worked in the Seychelles and in Chile. When ill-health curtailed her travelling she moved to Alderley, Gloucestershire where she died on 30 August 1890 and is buried in the local churchyard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe scientific accuracy with which she documented plant life in all parts of the world, before photography became a practical option, gives her work a permanent value. Plant species named in her honour include Areca northiana, Chassalia northiana, Crinum northianum, Kniphofia northiae, Nepenthes northiana and the genus name Northia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKew Gardens claims that the North Gallery (situated in the east section of the gardens) is \"the only permanent solo exhibition by a female artist in Britain\". In 2008 Kew obtained a substantial grant from the National Lottery, which enabled it to mount a major restoration of both the gallery and the paintings inside.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"marianne-north-90-high-resolution-images","title":"Marianne North 90 High Resolution Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the colourful world of Marianne North, a remarkable British artist whose botanical artwork is permanently housed at Kew Gardens, London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download features 90 hi-res images in JPEG format by the intrepid British artist, Marianne North.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe images are all 600dpi and range in size from 2958 pixels wide\/tall to 5832 pixels wide\/tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarianne North (1830-1890)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her plant and landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNorth was born in Hastings, England, the eldest daughter of a prosperous land-owning family descended from Roger North, younger son of Dudley North, 4th Baron North. Her father was Frederick North, a Norfolk Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace, and Liberal M.P. for Hastings. Her mother, Janet, was the daughter of Sir John Marjoribanks M.P., 1st Baronet of Lees in the County of Berwick. 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