User:MariahKRogers/Emma Amy Rea
Emma Amy Rea | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 May 1864 |
| Died | 12 January 1928 (aged 63) |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Mycology, Botanical Illustration, Painting, 1915 President of the British Mycological Society |
| Spouse | Carleton Rea |
| Children | Violet Rea Astley Cooper |
Emma Amy Rea (also called E.A. Rea, Amy Emma Rea, or Amy Rea, née Rose) (17 May 1864 – 12 Jan 1928) was an English mycologist, botanist, naturalist and illustrator.
Background and education
[edit]Emma was born in Hartlebury, Wychavon District, Worcestershire, England to father, John Rose, a Worcester solicitor and naturalist and mother, Emma Rose, née Phipps.[1]
John Rose frequently attended the mycological meetings of the Yorkshire Naturalists and was a member of the Worcestershire Naturalists, and his daughter joined and attended as well. John was one of the founding members of the British Mycological Society, and so his daughter was among its early members and developed an early interest in mycology.[2]
Marriage
[edit]She met Carleton Rea in the Worcestershire Naturalists club, where the became friends. They married in 22 Feb 1898 at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Worcester, England.[3][2]
Natural history, mycology and artistry
[edit]Emma Amy Rea was a naturalist and mycologist, painting many watercolours now held in the mycology collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) of the fungi she and her family collected together.
She was elected president of the British Mycological Society in 1915.
Her paintings of fungi were used as references by Carleton Rea as he wrote British Basidiomycetae, published in 1922.[4]
Daughter, Violet Rea Astley Cooper
[edit]Illness and death
[edit]Following this illness, she died on the 12th of January, 1928.[5] She was survived by her husband, Carleton, and her daughter Violet. She was interred at on the 16th January 1928 in a plot shared with her late father, John Rose, in Astwood Cemetery in the City of Worchester.[6]
Selected works
[edit]GALLERY OF ART
References
[edit]- ^ "Emma Phipps Rose grave profile". Find A Grave. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ a b J. Ramsbottom (1946). "Carleton Rea" (PDF). Index Fungorum. Transactions British Mycological Society. p. 181. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
is specializing in ' fungus' as he always called them, seems to have been due to his friendship with Amy Rose, who in 1818 became Mrs Rea. She was a member of the Worcestershire Naturalists, as also was her father, John Rose, a prominent Worcester solicitor, who later attended the Mycological Meetings of the Yorkshire Naturalists, and was one of our Society's original members. She wanted her specimens to be named and Rea agreed to do this if she would paint his fungi. The result was the beginning of the large series of paintings which are eventually to go to the Department of Botany, British Museum.
- ^ ""England Marriages, 1538–1973"". FamilySearch. p. v 3, p 238, n 476. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ J. Ramsbottom (1946). "Carleton Rea" (PDF). Index Fungorum. British Mycological Society. pp. 183–184. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
When he undertook to write British Basidiomycetae we agreed to collaborate. He wrote the descriptions which I checked or emended from the Museum collection of original drawings and other sources, He pushed ahead at a great rate, partly because of temperament, partly because of constant pressure by certain members. When I left for Macedonia I with-drew from collaboration, but helped considerably on my return. I should have preferred that, having the whole written up, there should have been a period of checking with specimens in the field and the insertion of original measurements where these were lacking. The descriptions were based on those of Fries and Quelet, whose works he always used, and collated with Mrs Rea's paintings.
- ^ J. Ramsbottom (1946). "Carleton Rea" (PDF). Index Fungorum. The British Mycological Society. pp. 180–185. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
He lost his first wife after a trying illness in 1927. His daughter Violet (Mrs Astley Cooper) gave up her art studies and returned home and carried on with the fungus drawings. When she married in 1929 he kept cheerfully on, but as his sole accomplishment in the cooking line had been one successful rice pudding at the beginning of Mrs Rea's serious illness, and his knowledge of the rest of housewifery was at about this level, he was completely in the hands of hirelings, who though doubtless well intentioned, could not supply the companionship and restraining influence he really needed. We were all happy therefore, when in 1931 he married Miss Susan Hubard and became his old self again, for she was fond of the open and keen to accompany him on that calendar of jaunts for Lodden lillies, for nuts, for fungi, for all nature's local specialities in their due season.
- ^ "Emma Amy Rose Rea grave profile". Find A Grave. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
External links
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Media related to Emma Amy Rea at Wikimedia Commons
- Ainsworth, Geoffrey C. (1996). Brief Biographies of British Mycologists (PDF). British Mycological Society. ISBN 0 9527704 0 7.