Gertrude Hartland (1865–1954) was an Irish illustrator and landscape painter. From County Cork, other members of the Hartland family were involved in horticulture and art, and she was primarily known for illustrations and paintings of flowers.

Life and work edit

Born in County Cork, she was the daughter of Richard Hartland and Mary Walsh, and the niece of artist Henry Albert Hartland and plantsman William Baylor Hartland.[1]

Hartland painted flowers, mainly daffodils.[1] Her uncle, WB Hartland, a plantsman who specialised in daffodils, produced a number of catalogues in the 1880s and 1890s which were illustrated with her engraved floral images.[2] This included several editions of the Little Book of Daffodils - for which her drawings were engraved by W.J. Welch.[3]

Hartland married a man named Stephen Jackson.[1] She died in 1954.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Ryan-Smolin, Wanda; Rogers, Jenni; Murphy, Patrick T., eds. (1987). Irish Women Artists: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day. National Gallery of Ireland. p. 166. ISBN 0-903162-40-7. Hartland, Gertrude (1865-1954) Gertrude Hartland was the daughter of Richard Hartland and Mary Walsh; she was born in Cork. Her father's younger brother, William Baylor Hartland; became a prominent Cork nurseryman. Miss Hartland drew and painted flowers, principally daffodils, from her uncle's nursery between 1887 and 1897 at least
  2. ^ Laurence C. Hatch (1999). BIOH: Biographies in Ornamental Horticulture. LH Press. [WB Hartland's] 1890 "Floral Album of Daffodils" [has] illustrations by his talented niece Gertrude Hartland
  3. ^ W.B. Hartland (1887). Hartland's Original Little Book of Daffodils (PDF). Purcell and Company.
  4. ^ Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. CRC Press. p. 322. ISBN 9780850668438.