Margaret Meen

Margaret Meen, née Coleman (died 1824) was an English watercolour painter.[1]

A group of flowers in a jar and a bird's nest, copy of the painting by Margaret Meen, copied by Princess Elizabeth
Margaret Meen
Bornca.1755
Bungay, Suffolk
Died1824
London
NationalityUnited Kingdom

She was born in Bungay,[2] Suffolk but moved to London to teach drawing flowers and insects.[1] 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 is dedicated to Queen Charlotte.[1] Her collection is now part of the Kew Herbarium.[1]

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.[3]

References
  1. Margaret Meen in Women of Kew workers
  2. Rubus fruticosus Art Print by Margaret Meen at King & McGaw Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  3. 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


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