Mary Georgina Wade Wilson (12 September 1856 – 1939) was a Scottish artist known for her

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and

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paintings. Wilson grew up on the Bantaskine Estate in

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before training in

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and Paris. She illustrated gardening books and her work includes also illustrations of gardens and the landscaped grounds of the Bantaskine estate were often a subject of her paintings. The Falkirk Museum has an image of her as a child while the Falkirk Community Trust Museum & Archives Collections holds one of her works.

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1856 births 1939 deaths 19th-century Scottish painters 19th-century Scottish women painters 20th-century Scottish painters 20th-century Scottish women artists People from Falkirk {{Scotland-artist-stub

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