Margaret Meen | |
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| Born | November or December 1751 |
| Died | January 1834 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | British |
Margaret Meen (1751-1834) was an English watercolour painter. Known for botanical illustrations (often painted on vellum), Margaret Meen taught this art to Queen Charlotte and her daughters; as well as to the four daughters (and several grand daughters) of Joshua Smith (English politician), MP. [1]
The daughter of Henry and Sarah Meen, Margaret was born in Bungay, [2] Suffolk or more likely in Harleston, Norfolk, where she was baptised in December 1751. [3] She moved to London to teach drawing flowers and insects. [4] 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 she dedicated to Queen Charlotte. A large collection of work is now part of the Kew Herbarium, with further botanicals by Margaret Meen in the collections of The Vyne ( National Trust) and the Royal Horticultural Society (London). [5]
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. [6]
Margaret Meen continued teaching, at schools and in homes of private pupils, throughout the 1820s. She died in Bath, her burial registered in the parish of Walcot, Somerset on 9 January 1834. Her probated will (28 January 1834) appears listed as "Will of Margaret Meen, Spinster of Loughton, Essex" [7] online at The National Archives.
- ^ Margaret Meen: A Life in Four Letters, by Kelly M. McDonald
- ^ Rubus fruticosus Art Print by Margaret Meen at King & McGaw Retrieved 2016-10-22
- ^ Ancestry
- ^ Margaret Meen in Women of Kew workers [retrieved 2021-2-20 blog removed]
- ^ Margaret Meen: A Life in Four Letters, by Kelly M. McDonald
- ^ 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
- ^ National Archives Wills
- Margaret Meen on artnet
- The Vyne, Hampshire, National Trust
- Two Teens in the Time of Austen, family history for Emma Austen Leigh, grand daughter of Joshua Smith MP
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Margaret Meen | |
|---|---|
| Born | November or December 1751 |
| Died | January 1834 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | British |
Margaret Meen (1751-1834) was an English watercolour painter. Known for botanical illustrations (often painted on vellum), Margaret Meen taught this art to Queen Charlotte and her daughters; as well as to the four daughters (and several grand daughters) of Joshua Smith (English politician), MP. [1]
The daughter of Henry and Sarah Meen, Margaret was born in Bungay, [2] Suffolk or more likely in Harleston, Norfolk, where she was baptised in December 1751. [3] She moved to London to teach drawing flowers and insects. [4] 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 she dedicated to Queen Charlotte. A large collection of work is now part of the Kew Herbarium, with further botanicals by Margaret Meen in the collections of The Vyne ( National Trust) and the Royal Horticultural Society (London). [5]
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. [6]
Margaret Meen continued teaching, at schools and in homes of private pupils, throughout the 1820s. She died in Bath, her burial registered in the parish of Walcot, Somerset on 9 January 1834. Her probated will (28 January 1834) appears listed as "Will of Margaret Meen, Spinster of Loughton, Essex" [7] online at The National Archives.
- ^ Margaret Meen: A Life in Four Letters, by Kelly M. McDonald
- ^ Rubus fruticosus Art Print by Margaret Meen at King & McGaw Retrieved 2016-10-22
- ^ Ancestry
- ^ Margaret Meen in Women of Kew workers [retrieved 2021-2-20 blog removed]
- ^ Margaret Meen: A Life in Four Letters, by Kelly M. McDonald
- ^ 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
- ^ National Archives Wills
- Margaret Meen on artnet
- The Vyne, Hampshire, National Trust
- Two Teens in the Time of Austen, family history for Emma Austen Leigh, grand daughter of Joshua Smith MP
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| Artists | |