Marguerite Primrose Gerrard (29 July 1922,

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– 11 August 1993,

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, born Marguerite Primrose Tyndale-Biscoe, was a Jamaica-born American botanical artist.

Life and family

Marguerite Primrose Tyndale-Biscoe was born in Jamaica on 29 July 1922 in a family of Robert Stafford Tyndale-Biscoe and Marguerite Eliza Wilson. In 1948 she married James Herbert Gerrard, taking Gerrard as her married name. They had a son, James Herbert Gerrard the Younger (1954-1982). Gerrard died on 11 August 1993 and is buried in the United States at Arlington Cemetery in

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Art

Marguerite Primrose Gerrard worked in techniques of botanical watercolour,

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, and gouache. Her botanical watercolours and drawings are included to the Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute. Selected watercolours are offered and sold at auction, including ''Ashcroft and Moore.''

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External links

Marguerite Primrose Gerrard on FindGrave
1922 births 1993 deaths 20th-century American artists 20th-century American women artists Jamaican emigrants to the United States American botanical illustrators Burials at Arlington Cemetery (Pennsylvania) {{US-illustrator-stub