Anne Henslow Barnard

Anne Henslow Barnard (1833–1899) was a 19th-century botanical artist.

Lacaena spectabilis illustrated by Anne Henslow Barnard in Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Anne Henslow Barnard
Born
Anne Henslow

1833 (1833)
Died19 January 1899(1899-01-19) (aged 65–66)
NationalityBritish
Known forBotanical Illustration
Spouse(s)
Robert Cary Barnard
(
m. after 1859)

Biography

Anne Henslow was born in 1833.[1][2] She was the youngest daughter[3] of botanist and Cambridge University professor John Stevens Henslow and Harriet Jenyns, who was the daughter of clergyman George Leonard Jenyns and the sister of naturalist Leonard Jenyns.[4]:46 Her older sister Frances Harriet married botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker,[4]:264 and one of her brothers, George, became a professor of botany.[5]

In 1859 she married army officer Robert Cary Barnard, who was the son of an old friend of her father's.[3][6] They had eight children.[1][7]

Barnard's father was one of the first Cambridge University professors to give illustrated lectures, for which he used poster-size illustrations. Some of these were based on rough sketches by Barnard that were then finished by the botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch.[8]

She contributed plates to Curtis's Botanical Magazine in the years 1879–94.[9] She also illustrated Daniel Oliver's 1864 Lessons in Elementary Biology, which was built on a manuscript left by her father. It stayed in print for several decades.[9] Although her output was not large, she was considered a very fine botanical artist.[10]

She died on 19 January 1899.[9]

Notes and references
  1. "The Henslow family – Relationships Relative to John Stevens Henslow. ". Natstand, March 6, 2015, updated Dec. 4, 2015. Accessed Dec. 23, 2015.
  2. Dates given for Barnard's birth year vary considerably in different sources. The Darwin Correspondence Project gives 1833 or 1834, while Darwin, Burkhardt, and Porter gives 1825, probably a mistake for her sister Frances Harriet. The preponderance of evidence appears to support 1833.
  3. Walters, Stuart Max, and Elizabeth Anne Stow. Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861. Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 19–20; 271.
  4. Jenyns, Leonard. Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow. John Van Voorst, London, 1862.
  5. "The Life and Times of Charles Maries" Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Anne Barnard" Archived December 26, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge, 2015. Accessed Dec. 23, 2015.
  7. Darwin, Charles, Frederick Burkhardt, and Duncan M. Porter. The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Vol. 8. Vol. 1860. Cambridge University Press, 2002, p. 290.
  8. Porter, Duncan, and Peter Graham. Darwin's Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
  9. Desmond, Ray, ed. Dictionary of British and Irish Botantists and Horticulturalists. CRC Press, 1994.
  10. Harris, Barbara Jean, and Jo Ann McNamara. Women and the Structure of Society: Selected research from the Fifth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Duke University Press, 1984, p.70.
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