Skip to page content

Acer palmatum, although there are more than 100 species of maple worldwide, only one species (Acer campestre) is native to the UK.

Skip to page content

Primary navigation

Portrait of Wallace's mother

Portrait of Wallace's mother

Catalogue number: WP6/8/6

Portrait of Wallace's mother Mary Anne Greenell, undated, circa 1807.

This sepia photograph shows an oval miniature portrait in a square frame. It is Wallace's mother, Mary Anne Greenell, aged 18 years. The date is uncertain but the original portrait was possibly painted when she married Wallace's father, Thomas Vere Wallace in 1807. Mary Anne died in 1868, aged almost 80. 

This photograph was reproduced in Wallace's autobiography My Life (facing page 16, 1905). Wallace was close to his immediate family and wrote many letters to his mother while on his travels around the Malay Archipelago.

Print version
Contact us

For enquiries about the Wallace Collection please email the library

Search this collection

Wallace Letters Online

Letter to Alfred Russel Wallace from the Royal Society, about his Darwin Medal award

View high resolution scans and transcripts of Alfred Russel Wallace's correspondence, including all surviving letters between him and Charles Darwin.

Explore Wallace's correspondence