玛丽安娜·诺斯是英国维多利亚时期的旅行家、画家和植物学家。她的名字作为若干物种的种加词一直流传至今,甚至山榄科的一个属(Northia)都是以其姓氏命名的,不过真正令其名噪一时的还是她笔下的近千幅植物画。笔者近日在邱园有幸参观了重新开放的玛丽安娜画廊,深为叹服,特为文以志。生平玛丽安娜1830年出生在英国东南沿海黑斯廷斯自治镇上的一个富裕家庭,父亲弗雷德里克是第四代诺斯男爵的幼子,曾长期担任镇议会的议员,母亲则是贝尔维克郡第一代里斯准男爵的女儿。玛丽安娜是母 Marianne North is a British Victorian traveler, painter and botanist. Her name, an affix of several species, has been circulating so far, and even a genus of the genus Rania is named after her last name, but her real name is nearly a thousand paintings by her. Recently I was fortunate enough to visit the reopened Marianna Gallery in Kew, deeply impressed by Wen Zhi. Life Mariana was born in 1830 in a wealthy family on the Southeastern coast of Hastings, England. Father Frederick, the youngest son of the fourth generation of Baron Norton, has long served as a member of the town council and his mother Bellevue The first generation of Kerr County, Baron’s daughter. Marianne is the mother