page_title: Beatrice Emma Parsons
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Beatrice Emma Parsons / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Gladioli and Agapanthus by Beatrice Emma Parsons plate 4 Beautiful flowers and how to grow them Edinburgh,T.C. &amp; E.C. Jack, ltd.,1922. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/71583
context_page_description: Beatrice Emma Parsons was a British painter and is best known for her watercolours of garden subjects. Parsons, along with George Samuel Elgood and Ernest Arthur Rowe, is considered one of the leading English painters of gardens.
context_section_description: Although known for her garden paintings, Parsons originally experimented with historical and genre paintings and also created a few portraits, landscapes, and still-life paintings. She began painting, almost exclusively, garden subject watercolours in 1900. She painted in England, but also in Europe and Africa. Parsons preferred painting gardens in their summer colours, and specialized in the gardens of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. Her work was featured on postcards and greeting cards during her time. Many of her paintings were used as illustrations in gardening books, such as Gardens of England (1908) and The Charm of Gardens (1910).
  Parsons' work caught the attention of royals and aristocrats. Queen Mary purchased over 30 of her paintings, and some were bought by the Duchess of Westminster and the Duchess of Harewood. She painted gardens for Lord and Lady Hillingdon at Overstrand Hall, and was invited every year between 1921 and 1929 to Blickling Hall to paint the gardens there.
caption: Gladioli and Agapanthus by Beatrice Emma Parsons
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