second cousin: botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker ; Lady ->Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer (1854-1927) (cousin) ;
trained by Joseph D. Hooker at Kew & botanical draughtsman
United Kingdom
J. D. Hooker: Flora New Zealand (1864/1867) & Icon Plant ; T. F. Cheeseman: New Zealand Flora (1914) ; William Botting Hemsley & Francis B. Forbes: Enum Plants China (1887) ; Watt: Wild Cultiv Cotton (1907) ; Alfred Cooper Fryer (1826-1912) ; Arthur Bennett (1844-1xxx) ; J. G. Baker ; Balfour: Socotra ; Collett Simlensis ; Johnston ; William T. Thiselton-Dyer (ed.): Hooker's Icon 6(4): 1899 ; Curtis's Botanical Magazine (head illustrator between 1888 and 1921, created more than 2300 plates) ;
Curtis's Botanical Magazine (40 years) ; Royal Botanic Gardens Kew & Bulletin; Associate of Linnean Society 1921 ; Transactions also Royal Society ;
Harriet Ann Hooker ; Lilian Snelling ; artist and lithographer John Nugent Fitch ; successor to Walter Fitch & Harriet Thiselton-Dyer ;
botanical drawing, watercolour, and lithography ; miniature ;
AKL ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Sawyer 1971: 184 ; Daniels 1974: 54f. ; Jack Kramer: Women of Flowers 1996: 164-7 ; Sprunger 1986: 11 ;
Further Place of Activity: India.
1st female botanical artist in the British Civil Service 1878-1923; Curtis's sole official artist 1898 http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-SamEarl-t1-body1-d14-d4.html ; http://talk.sciencegossip.org/#/subjects/ASC0002wwt and http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=14150&-max=25 ; http://plantillustrations.org/artist.php?id_artist=106&mobile=0
Further archival source: https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/smith-matilda.html .
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