![]() Her efforts were encouraged by her uncle, Sir Henry Roscoe, but her attempts to befriend the scientific staff at the museum were rebuffed.ĭuring summers, the family would rent a country house, in the early years in Scotland, and then later in the English Lake District. Potter spent many hours at the British Museum of Natural History where she drew highly detailed pictures of various fungi. Photography supported her ability to draw highly detailed pictures of animals, and of fungi, (see study of mycology). Potter's natural artistic talent was encouraged by her father, who also shared his love of photography with his daughter. ![]() After being tutored privately, Potter went on to earn an Art Certificate. It was her keen scientific observations that first drew Beatrix towards drawing. The siblings kept various pet animals: Frogs, newts, and even a bat. They spent hours exploring the woods, even collecting and dissecting animal skeletons. Her joy in the birth of a younger brother, Bertram, was expounded by happy times together searching for fossils and keeping pets. In later years she would prove to be reticent around adults, while displaying a natural affinity for children. She was educated at home by a succession of governesses and had little contact with other children. Her parents, Rupert Potter, a nonpracticing lawyer, and Helen (Leech) Potter lived on their inheritance from the Lancashire cotton industry. Yet at heart, Beatrix Potter was a naturalist and environmentalist whose work reflects her love of animals and the English countryside.īeatrix Potter was born in Kensington, London in 1866. The more easily accessible opportunity that availed itself to Potter's talent was the career of children's author and illustrator, a career in which she excelled. Later she would be honored by the latter institution for her highly detailed and accurate drawings of fungi. Twice Potter was rejected by the scientific community: First, by the Royal Botanical Gardens and secondly, by the Linnaean Society of London. She only pursued the career of children's author after her scientific ambitions were thwarted by the lack of opportunity for women in her time. She insisted that her books be miniatures to fit children's smaller hand size, while at the same time employing a more sophisticated vocabulary and realistic situations in order to challenge children's reading abilities.īeatrix Potter's first passion in life was science. She took the genre of children's literature to a new level through her highly accurate and detailed drawings of woodland animals. Her books, now classics, were unique in that she did all of her own illustrations. Potter's illustration of her anthropomorphic rabbits-in this case the married cousins, Benjamin and Flopsy Bunny (with Peter Rabbit in the background), from The Tale of the Flopsy Bunniesīeatrix Potter, or Helen Beatrix Potter (JDecember 22, 1943) was an English author and illustrator of children's books.
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