Much of a man's legacy lies in his offspring. One of Swainson's sons, George, married Maryanne Arrowsmith, who started a school for girls in Wellington. Among her pupils in this 1901 photograph was Katherine Mansfield (second row, seventh from left). Several of Swainson's children inherited his talent for illustration, among them Lucella (born to his second wife, Ann, in 1842), who painted this North Island shrub. Rhabdothamnus solandri (1887).
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