Marianne North
(1830-1890), Painter and travellerSitter in 3 portraits
Marianne North travelled the globe in order to satisfy her passion for painting the world's fauna and flora. Having first travelled with her widowed father, after his death she took up a peripatetic life, painting the flowers of the many countries she visited. In the course of her travels, North crossed every continent and had four new species of plant named after her. Her focus, however, was always on painting; she was primarily a painter who travelled, rather than a traveller who painted. She presented her collection to Kew, where it was displayed in a gallery that she designed and financed.
acrylic on paper collaged on panels, 2021-2022
On display in Room 33 on Floor 0 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 7145
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by Unknown photographer
sepia-toned vintage print on card, 1880s
NPG x128767
by T. Bailey, after Aldham & Aldham
wood engraving, published 18 April 1883
NPG D42434
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