Portrait of the Coveted Cinchona
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celebrated for her meticulous attention to detail, form, and color. Her collection of 833 paintings, which portray more than 900 species of plants, comprises her life’s work and is on permanent display in the Marianne North gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Because North painted with oils, rather than with watercolors, and because she predates color photography, her body of work offers an enduring visual record of these plant species, some of which are quite rare or extinct. North did not take lessons in oil painting until 1867 or begin her odyssey to paint flora from around the world until 3 years later when she was 40 years of age, which makes the quality and volume of her work more remarkable. After exhibiting her paintings in a London gallery in 1879, North wrote to Kew director Sir Joseph Hooker, offering to build a gallery if he would agree to display her life’s work there. He consented, and North then devoted a year arranging her paintings inside her eponymous gallery before its public opening in 1882. Her paintings still hang in this gallery, which was faithfully restored to its original character in 2009. Earlier in her life, North had traveled broadly with her father Frederick North, who had been a member of parliament for Hastings. Following his death in 1869, her substantial inheritance and many political connections allowed her free rein to travel and pursue her passion for painting. During the next 13 years, she visited 16 countries on 6 continents, including Brazil, Japan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and South Africa. Following a recommendation of Charles Darwin, a friend both of her late father and Hooker, North also explored Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania.
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