Anne Henslow Barnard

Anne Henslow Barnard
Born	Anne Henslow (1833-06-23)June 23, 1833 Cambridge
Died	January 19, 1899(1899-01-19) (aged 65) Leckhampton
Nationality	British
Known for	Botanical Illustration
Spouse	Robert Cary Barnard ​ (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

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 Botany, 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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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. 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. Walters, Stuart Max, and Elizabeth Anne Stow. Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861. Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 19–20; 271.
5. 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. 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.