Anna Maria Truter

Anna Maria Truter, Lady Barrow (17 August 1777 – 15 December 1857) was a Cape Colony botanical artist.

By the time she left the Cape in 1803, she had assembled the first known portfolio of Cape flower studies and landscapes.

Her husband, Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, became Second Secretary to the Admiralty in 1804, and authored An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, in the Years 1797 and 1798 (London, 1801).

[1] She was the daughter of Petrus Johannes Truter (17 December 1747, Cape Town – 31 January 1825, Swellendam), an official in the East India Company, a Member of the Court of Justice, and a Commissioner of Police, who was married on 18 April 1773 to Johanna Ernestina Blankenberg (born 19 April 1750).

Anna Maria Truter and John Barrow had seven children:

Sutherlandia frutescens , 2 species of Wurmbea, Hermannia pinnata and a small Senecio, c. 1800, pencil and watercolour