Rhona Brown

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. Provided by Wikipedia