Rhona Brown
South African artist (1922–2014)
Biography
Rhona Brown (September 23, 1922 - March 14, 2014), was a South African botanical artist.
Brown was educated at University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg and UNISA graduating with a B.A.(Hons.) in Fine Arts and with a National Art Teachers Certificate. She worked at the Botanical Research Institute in Pretoria for two spells - 1944-46 and 1965–69 and taught sporadically for eight years. She completed some 100 plates for the Flowering Plants of Africa and black-and-white illustrations for Bothalia and Flora of Southern Africa. She provided about half of all illustrations for Palmer & Pitman's Trees of Southern Africa and all the illustrations for Eve Palmer's Field Guide to the Trees of Southern Africa.
She married Comdt. Horatio Theophilus Collett on 2 March 1946.
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- Rhona Brown died on March 14, 2014 at the age of 91.
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- Rhona Brown was born on September 23, 1922.
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