The Marianne North Gallery
Jim Linwood
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Kew Gardens - Marianne North Gallery
1879 - Marianne North commissions her friend James Fergusson to design a gallery to be built in Kew Gardens for the pictures of flowers and plants that she has painted on extensive travels around the world.
1883-4 - After the gallery is built in Kew Gardens at her expense, Marianne North continues to travel and paint, eventually filling it with 832 pictures. She dies in 1890.
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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