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Last Name Meen

Given Name Margaret °

alt. Names M. M. ;

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Year born 1775 fl.

Year died 1824 fl.

Place of death

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Education

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for Lord Bute ; M. Meen: Exotic Plants from the Royal Gardens at Kew (1790) ;

Patronage Royal Botanic Gardens Kew; Pricess Augusta ; Earl of Tankerville ; Queen Charlotte ;

Collaborators

Techniques botanical painting and watercolour ;

Sample(s) www.rhsprints.co.uk/image/421159/meen-margaret-1775-1806-artist-psoralea-aculeata ;

Archival sources Kew Library & Archives; www.kew.org/heritage/people/meen.html ;

Published sources AKL ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Sawyer 1971: 159 ; Daniels 1974: 46f. ; Blunt & Stearn 1994 ;

other Mostly known as a flower paintress; 100s of paintings of exotic plants for Kew.

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