Marianne North

1830–1890 · Realism

Marianne North was an English biologist and botanical artist, known for her plant and landscape paintings, extensive foreign travels, writings, plant discoveries, and the creation of a gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She was born in Hastings, England.

40 paintings

• View of the Taj Mahal at Agra, North West India (1878)
• Flowers and Fruit of the Mangosteen, and a Singapore Monkey (1876)
• 'Chittur. Rajputana. India. Decr. 1878' (1878)
• 'Hurdwar. India. May 1878' (1878)
• 'Beypore, India' (1878)
• Distant View of Santiago, Chili, from Apoquindo (1873)
• A Fallen Giant, Calaveras Grove, California (1875)
• 'Castor and Pollux' in the Calaveras Grove of Big Trees, California (1875)
• A Climber in Flower and Fruit, Sarawak, Borneo (1876)
• Fruit of Sandoricum and Green Gaper, Borneo (1876)
• Limestone Mountains of Sarawak, Borneo (1876)
• Marble Rocks, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India (1878)
• Palms and Ferns, a Scene in the Botanic Garden, Queensland
• The Galpa, Jeypore
• Gate of Rajah's Palace, Benares, India
• Banksia of Tasmania (1881)
• Foliage and Flowers of a Tree Commonly Cultivated in Warm Countries
• Group of Cultivated Flowers
• A New Caledonian Plant, Hibiscus cooperi
• Foliage, Flowers and Fruit of the Pepper Plant
• Flowers of a Dogwood and an Indigo from the Himalayas
• River from Bussa, Sarawak, Borneo (1876)
• Gate of Mariamma Temple, Japan (1876)
• Tree Fern in the Preanger Mountains, Java (1876)
• Foliage and Fruit of Sterculia parviflora
• A Sacred Grass (1878)
• Foliage and Flowers of Two Indian Rhododendrons (1878)
• Peepul or Bo (1878)
• Foliage and Flowers of a Climbing Plant with Royal Palms and Sugarloaf Mountain in the Background, Brazil (1873)
• Foliage and Double Flowers of the Sandal-Wood Bramble (1872)
• The Well, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) (1877)
• Foliage and Fruit of Mammee Apple or South American Apricot (1873)
• Study of the Traveller's Tree of Madagascar in the Botanic Garden of Rio, Brazil (1873)
• Elephant Gate and Neem Tree at Chittore, India (1878)
• Palm, Bamboos and India-Rubber Trees in the Botanic Garden, Rio (1873)
• Flowers of a Twiner, Brazil (1873)
• A Brazilian Orchid (1873)
• Orchids of Tropical Asia (1878)
• Foliage and Fruit of the Loquat or Japanese Medlar, Brazil (1873)
• A New Pitcher Plant from the Limestone Mountains of Sarawak, Borneo (1876)