biography
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Mee, Margaret (Ursula)
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| female
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| lived:
| (1909–88)
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| biography:
| British botanical artist and traveller. She trained at the Camberwell School of Art, and first visited the Amazon forests when she was 47. Ten years later, having settled in Brazil, she began her outstanding career as a botanical artist, travelling extensively in the Brazilian Amazonia, and collecting new species and painting many others, some of which have since become extinct. The Margaret Mee Amazon trust was set up in 1988 to draw attention to the area's ecological crisis. |
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