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Last Name Lindley

Given Name John

alt. Names J. L. ; he signed his plates "J. L." ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1799

Year died 1865

Place of death Turnham Green, Midd.

Father's occupation gardener George Lindley (c. 1769-1835)

Relatives

Education Norwhich Grammar School (until 1814 or 1815)

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) ; Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761-1842) ; Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) ; 15 orchid plates in vol. 7-9 of the Botanical Register (between 1821 and 1823) ;

Patronage William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), who became a mentor of J. L. ;

Collaborators William Cattley (1788-1835) ; Joseph Paxton (1803-1865) ;

Techniques botanical & medical drawing and painting ; hand-colouring

Sample(s) www.tulane.edu/~darwin/Herbarium/Herbarium/Herbarium%20Koch.htm

Archival sources http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lindley_(Botaniker) ; http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=9700&-max=25 ;

Published sources Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Phyllis I. Edwards et al.(eds.): Indian Botanical Paintings (1980: 27) ; Orchids 1991: 9-23 & passim, incl. plates ;

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