Marguerite Primrose Gerrard
Marguerite Primrose Gerrard (29 July 1922, Jamaica – 11 August 1993, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, born Marguerite Primrose Tyndale-Biscoe,[1] was a Jamaica-born American botanical artist.[2]
Life and family[]
Marguerite Primrose Tyndale-Biscoe was born in Jamaica on 29 July 1922 in a family of Robert Stafford Tyndale-Biscoe and Marguerite Eliza Wilson.[1] In 1948 she married James Herbert Gerrard, taking Gerrard as her married name. They had a son, James Herbert Gerrard the Younger (1954-1982).[2] Gerrard died on 11 August 1993 and is buried in the United States at Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.
Art[]
Marguerite Primrose Gerrard worked in techniques of botanical watercolour, tempera, and gouache.[2] Her botanical watercolours and drawings are included to the Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute.[3] Selected watercolours are offered and sold at auction, including Ashcroft and Moore.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
- ^ a b c "DSI - datatabase of scientific illustrators 1450-1950". dsi.hi.uni-stuttgart.de. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
- ^ "Record List". fmhibd.library.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
- ^ "PRIMROSE GERRARD WATERCOLOR". invaluable.com. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
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- 1922 births
- 1993 deaths
- 20th-century American artists
- 20th-century American women artists
- Jamaican emigrants to the United States
- Botanical illustrators
- Burials at Arlington Cemetery (Pennsylvania)
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