M. M. ; born Morris / Maria Miller / Maria Frances Morris ;
Garrett Trafalgar Nelson Miller (1xxx-18xx) in 1840
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1813 in Country Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada
1875
Halifax, Canada
Guy Morris (17xx-1813)
Her mother opened a school in Halifax where Morris would eventually head the School of Drawing & Painting
trained under W. H. Jones between 1828 and 1830 and continued her studies in 1832 under the visiting English fliower painter L'Estrange
Canada
M. M.: Wild flowers of Nova Scotia (London & Halifax, 1840-1866; 4 series with 99 sheets, representing 146 species) ; botanist Titus Smith (1768-1850), first Secretary of Agriculture for Nova Scotia ; botanist George Lawson (1827-1895) ;
School of Drawing & Painting in Halifax, Canada ; 1836 elected "Painter of the Year" by North British Society of Halifax; governor Sir Colin Campbell
botanical drawing, watercolour and lithography ; hand-colouring
Mora Dianne O'Neill: M. M. Mi.- Growing Flowers on Stone, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Vertical File; www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/ ;
Dict. of Canadian Biography 10 1966: 534 ; Women's work, a selection of work of 4 significant Nova Scotia artists, Maria Morris, Alice Hagen, Maud Lewis, Suzanne Swannie (Halifax 1981); Robert 2008: 11ff., 18 & 87ff.; Mary Sparling: The Brit. Vision of Nova Scotia, MA thesis, Halifax Univ., 1978 ;
Cf. also further examples at flandrumhill.wordpress.com/tag/fungus/; www.wenner.net/?artikelid=G30123 .
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