Margaret Meen

Margaret Meen, née Coleman (died 1824) was an English watercolour painter.

She was born in Bungay, Suffolk but moved to London to teach drawing flowers and insects. She showed her work as a botanist at the Royal Academy and the Royal Watercolour Society, and published “Exotic plants from the Royal Gardens at Kew” in 1790 which is dedicated to Queen Charlotte. Her collection is now part of the Kew Herbarium.

Her painting A group of flowers in a jar and a bird's nest, which she painted in 1806 for Princess Elizabeth, was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.