Margaret Meen
| Margaret Meen | |
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| Born |
ca.1755 Suffolk |
| Died |
1824 London |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
Margaret Meen, née Coleman (d.1824) was an English watercolour painter.[1]
A group of flowers in a jar and a bird's nest, copy of the painting by Margaret Meen, copied by Princess Elizabeth
She was born in Suffolk but moved to London to teach drawing flowers and insects.[1] She showed her work as a botanist at the Royal Academy and the Royal Watercolour Society, and published “Exotic plants from the Royal Gardens at Kew” in 1790 which is dedicated to Queen Charlotte.[1] Her collection is now part of the Kew Herbarium.[1]
Her painting A group of flowers in a jar and a bird's nest, which she painted in 1806 for Princess Elizabeth, was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Margaret Meen in Women of Kew workers
- ↑ Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
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