| An early American botanical illustrator, William Bartram was the seventh of eleven children of John Bartram, who was royal botanist to King George III in North American and lived in Philadelphia. John Bartram had received the first copy of Englishman Mark Catesby's two-volume book, "The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands", published between 1729 and 1747, and young William was so inspired by it that he took up painting botanics. He later earned money by making money fro (showing 500 of 2321 characters). |
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