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Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890) was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her plant and landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 
 

Marianne North travelled the world painting plants, people and places. Defying Victorian conventions, she left an extraordinary legacy behind. 
 

From mighty redwoods in California to pitcher plants in Borneo, she painted plants great and small across the globe. 
 

She turned her back on the life expected of her as a Victorian woman. Instead, she made it her mission to paint as many plants in faraway places as she could. 

Come and learn more about this incredible female artist.