Ann Latham

Ann Latham (1772–1835) was a British entomologist, scientific illustrator and watercolourist who made "significant contributions to both ornithology and entomology" when she collaborated with her ornithologist father who documented many new bird species from the British colonies between 1780 and 1828. Some of her work is conserved in the Natural History Museum, London.

Biography Latham was born in 1772 in Darenth, Kent, England, to the ornithologist John Latham (1740–1837) and Ann Porter of Bexley, who married on 12 September 1763.

She painted other conserved illustrations of exotic Lepidoptera, mostly butterflies, before 1793. Many are held in the Warden and Fellows’ Library, Winchester College, Winchester. Her butterfly paintings are bound in two volumes dated 1793: Volume one has 144 figures and Volume two has 276 figures.

Marriage In 1795, Latham married the surgeon, William Nicholas Wickham, in Winchester, Hampshire. They had seven children, resulting in "a remarkable dynasty of physicians and surgeons, clergymen, lawyers, and headmasters of public schools".

Last years Latham's life after 1795 is not well documented. She died in the parish of St Thomas, Winchester, on 21 January 1835.