In the quiet corners of the RHS Lindley Library lies a treasure trove of 19th-century floral artistry – over 300 delicate watercolours by a woman whose name is barely known beyond the margins of botanical art history
Discover the remarkable paintings of Harmanis de Alwis, the Sri Lankan botanical artist whose artworks continue to inform botanical scholarship today, over a century after his death.
In the elegant drawing room of a Wiltshire stately home now lost to time, a story unfolded that links a group of talented sisters, an art tutor to royalty, and the beloved novelist Jane Austen.