Anne Henslow Barnard

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Anne Henslow Barnard
Born
Anne Henslow

(1833-06-23)June 23, 1833
Cambridge
DiedJanuary 19, 1899(1899-01-19) (aged 65)
Leckhampton
NationalityBritish
Known forBotanical Illustration
Spouse
Robert Cary Barnard
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(m. 1859)​

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

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

Biography[edit]

Anne Henslow was born on 23 June 1833.[1][2][3] She was the youngest daughter[4] 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.[5]: 46  Her older sister Frances Harriet married botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker,[5]: 264  and one of her brothers, George, became a professor of botany.[6]

In 1859, she married army officer Robert Cary Barnard, who was the son of an old friend of her father's.[4][7] They had eight children.[1][8]

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.[9]

She contributed plates to Curtis's Botanical Magazine in the years 1879–94.[10][3] She also illustrated Daniel Oliver's 1864 Lessons in Elementary Biology, which was built on a manuscript left by her father.[3] It stayed in print for several decades.[10] Although her output was not large, she was considered a very fine botanical artist.[11] Barnard died on 19 January 1899 at Bartlow, the house in Leckhampton where she and her husband had lived for over three decades.[10][3]

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  1. ^ a b "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. ^ a b c d Alison J. Rix (17 July 2023). "Anne Barnard: Her life and contribution to Curtis's Botanical Magazine". Curtis's Botanical Magazine. doi:10.1111/CURT.12510. ISSN 1355-4905. Wikidata Q121088157.
  4. ^ a b Walters, Stuart Max, and Elizabeth Anne Stow. Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861. Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 19–20; 271.
  5. ^ a b Jenyns, Leonard. Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow. John Van Voorst, London, 1862.
  6. ^ "The Life and Times of Charles Maries" Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "Anne Barnard" Archived December 26, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge, 2015. Accessed Dec. 23, 2015.
  8. ^ Darwin, Charles, Frederick Burkhardt, and Duncan M. Porter. The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Vol. 8. Vol. 1860. Cambridge University Press, 2002, p. 290.
  9. ^ Porter, Duncan, and Peter Graham. Darwin's Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
  10. ^ a b c Desmond, Ray, ed. Dictionary of British and Irish Botantists and Horticulturalists. CRC Press, 1994.
  11. ^ 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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