Margaret Rebecca Dickinson (1821–1918) was a botanical artist who lived in north-east England and the Scottish Borders. Her watercolour paintings of plants collected around her homes, and other parts of the British Isles are in the archives of the Royal Horticultural Society and the Great North Museum: Hancock. As well as their artistic quality they provide information on how land use in the region has changed since her time.
Margaret Rebecca Dickinson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 22 July 1821 to William Ogle and Elizabeth (née Davidson) Dickinson, the youngest of their children. Her father was a tobacco and snuff manufacturer in Newcastle. She lived with her parents, three sisters and a brother. Her brother inherited the tobacco business. She did not marry and was of independent means because of the family's wealth.[1]
She made a herbarium with over 1000 specimens and also produced many drawings and watercolour paintings of wild and cultivated flowers, mostly between 1846 and 1874, although she continuing to paint into the 1890s. Dickinson made use of shading to give her paintings a three-dimensional appearance. She recorded where each came from, and something about them on each painting. She probably travelled to collect the flowers. They were mostly collected in the region around the Newcastle and Scottish Borders where she lived, but some were from North Wales and Upper Teesdale ,while others came from Cirencester, Kent, Ireland and Devon. Comparisons of some of her records with later information has shown significant changes in land use. She also made a few drawings of fungal fruiting bodies and mosses.[1]
In the late 1850s her father retired and the family moved to Gattonside, near Melrose.[2][1]
In 1868 she moved to Norham in Northumberland with her parents and sister. When their parents died during the following two years, the sisters inherited the house (Tweed Villa) and lived there for the rest of their lives. She completed 42 paintings within the first three years of living in Norham.[3] She died there on 9 December 1918.[2]
In 1873 she became an honorary member of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club, and contributed her paintings to exhibitions and attended meetings until 1908. She went on the society's field visit to Lindisfarne in 1874, painting several plants that she found there.[1]
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