Caroline Coventry Haynes (13 April 1858 – 4 September 1951) was an American bryologist and

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

, known for her study of liverworts and other hepatics.

Early life and artistic career

Haynes was born on the 13th of April 1858 in New York to Caroline DeForest and her husband Frederick William Haynes. She completed her formal education at schools in New York and then travelled to Paris where she studied painting with

William-Adolphe Bouguereau William-Adolphe Bouguereau (; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female ...

and

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...

. During the 1890s Haynes was a member of the New York Water Color Club and exhibited at several annual exhibitions. She also exhibited a work at the National Academy of Design Annual Exhibit in 1897. She was a member and served as president of the Woman's Art Club of New York in 1899. In the early 1900s she was appointed a member of the jury of selection for the New York Water Color Club annual exhibition and also served on the hanging committee. A painting by Haynes is held at the

New-York Historical Society The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. ...

Botanical career

Haynes returned to New York from Paris in 1902 and studied botany with Marshall A. Howe at the

New York Botanic Garden The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City. Established in 1891, it is located on a site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, ...

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