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  1. Walcott, Mary Vaux Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was an eminent American botanical artist, renowned for her exquisite watercolour illustrations of North American wildflowers. Born into a prominent Quaker family in Philadelphia, she developed a passion for art and nature from a young age following family holidays to the Rocky Mountains in Canada. In 1880, her mother died and at 19 years old Vaux took on the responsibility of caring for her father and two younger brothers. After 1887, she and her brothers went ba...