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Last Name Parsons
Given Name Alfred William
alt. Names A. W. P. ; Alfred Parsons ;
Marriage
Children
Year born 1847 in Laverton, Beckington, Somerset
Year died 1920
Place of death Broadway, Worcestershire
Father's occupation surgeon / gardener Joshua Parsons (18xx-1xxx)
Relatives
Education clerk in post office; Kensington School of Art ;
Country of Activity United Kingdom
Worked for William Robinson (1838-1935): Wild Garden (1881/1903) ; Ellen Ann Willmott (1858-1934): Genus Rosa (London: John Murray, 1910-14) ; Louis Compton Miall (1842-1921) ;
Patronage Royal Watercolour Society London ;
Collaborators Francis Davis Millet (1846-1912) ;
Techniques botanical, landscape, and natural drawing and watercolour ;
Sample(s) http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_242897/Alfred-Parsons/Rose-Bourbon ;
Archival sources Royal Horticultural Society Library ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Parsons_(artist) ;
Published sources AKL ; ThB 26 1932: 260 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 2807 ; Walpole 1969: 14 ;
other See also: http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=11675&-max=25 .
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