An extensive collection of early nineteenth-century watercolours of flowers from the RHS Lindley Collections, beautifully painted in a set of over three hundred paintings, by Caroline Maria Applebee (c. 1787 – 16 September 1854), the eldest daughter of the Rev. John Applebee, have been adapted into a Moorcroft Collection of seven pieces by Moorcroft designer, Nicola Slaney. Her subjects span over forty-years, and feature in three albums, held in family ownership following her death. In the nineteenth-century botanical painting by women was encouraged by the likes of George Brookshaw in his New Treatise on Flower Painting (1816) at a similar time as James Whatman produced the first woven papers especially for use with watercolours, with some of Applebee’s watercolours bearing his watermark. Born in c.1787, Applebee was not a published artist, but was, nonetheless, a member of the horticultural society in her hometown of Colchester, and a prize exhibitor of the Eucomis comosa or pineapple flower at the local show in 1850.
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