Alfred William Parsons RA

British 1847-1920

Alfred William Parsons was well known for his English landscape paintings and fine botanical illustrations. He regularly exhibited his art work from 1868 to 1919.

He also artistically designed significant gardens, mostly in England and some in Scotland and the United States. Parsons and his contemporaries believed that an artist could design better gardens.

Parsons became President of the Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1905 and. among many other works, illustrated Ellen Willmott's The Genus Rosa. He was a keen gardener and for the last six years of his life took care of his roses at Luggershill, Broadway in Worcestershire.