Paintings by Gertrude Jekyll

Before she became a garden designer, Gertrude Jekyll studied painting, enrolling in the School of Art, South Kensington in 1861. There, she copied masterpieces by Turner, Rembrandt, Stubbs and other painters. She painted scenes in England, Continental Europe and Algiers in the course of her travels. Owing to weakening eyesight, she gave up painting and applied her artistic talents to garden design.