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Last Name Walker

Given Name Anna Maria °

alt. Names A. M. W. ; born Patton ;

Marriage in 1809 botanist Colonel George Warren Walker (1778–1843) at Chunar, in present-day Uttar Pradesh

Children probably none

Year born 1778 c. in Kinaldy, Fife, Scotland

Year died 1852

Place of death Mangalore, India

Father's occupation Colonel Robert Patton

Relatives Constantia Adriana Sally Mapletoft (mother) ; 16 siblings, among them John Wogan Patton, Sarah and Jessy ; Philip Patton (paternal grandfather) ; ...

Education self-taught as artist ? ;

Country of Activity Scotland, UK

Worked for botanist George Arnott Walker-Arnott of Arlary (1799-1868): Pugillus Plantarum Indiae Orientalis (1837) ; botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858) ;

Patronage

Collaborators botanist and botanical illustrator William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) ; surgeon and naturalist obert Wight (1796-1872) ; botanist and surgeon Robert Wight (1796-1872) ; physician and botanist Robert Graham (1786-1845) ;

Techniques botanical drawing and watercolour ; oil landscape paintings ; colouring ;

Sample(s) https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/6095 ;

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Maria_Walker ;

Published sources Noltie, Henry J.: The Botanical Collections of Colonel & Mrs Walker: Ceylon, 1830–1838 (Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2013) ;

other Further Relative: British army officer and colonial governor, Lieutenant General Sir Henry D'Oyley Torrens (1833-1889) (brother-in-law). Further Places of Activity: Ceylon (= Sri Lanka) and India.

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