Marianne North
/The Marianne North Gallery at Kew Royal Botanical Gardens displays 833 of her paintings displayed in geographical order, which she hung after traveling around the world. She built the gallery and it opened in 1882.
The next best thing to visiting the physical gallery, it to view the online gallery which is organized so that it can be browse by country, plant group, or category. I chose to view each of the ‘plant groups’ as a ‘book’ and then the landscapes it two parts. Some sample images are below; there are many more in the online gallery. Her paintings are of plants in their natural setting rather than traditional Victorian prints.
