After her sister married in 1864 and her father lost his seat in parliament, the two spent even more time travelling, visiting Switzerland and the South Tyrol. In 1871–1872, she travelled to Canada, the United States and
Jamaica, and spent a year in
Brazil, where she did much of her work at a hut in the depths of a forest. North was encouraged to visit South America by
Frederic Edwin Church, whom she considered "the greatest of living landscape painters" and whose home in New York,
Olana, she visited twice. In 1875, after a few months in
Tenerife, she began a journey round the world, and for two years painted the flora of California, Japan,
Borneo,
Java and
Ceylon. During her visits to California, she recorded her concern with the destruction of the redwoods. She spent all of 1878 in various parts of
India. In 1878
The Graphic reported an exhibition of Marianne North's works at
Kensington, in which 512 of her oil paintings were put on public display. In a long article, the critic praised North for "her freedom of hand, the purity and brilliancy of colour and the accurate draughtsmanship of a consummate artist". On her return to Britain, North exhibited a number of her drawings in London. She offered to give the collection to the
Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and to erect a gallery to house them. This offer was accepted, and the new buildings, designed by
James Fergusson, were begun that year. At
Charles Darwin's suggestion, North went to Australia in 1880, and for a year painted there and in
New Zealand. On her return, she presented Darwin the shrub 'Australian Sheep' (
Raoulia eximia) as a gift and showed him her Australian pictures. where she died on 30 August 1890 and is buried in the local churchyard. ==Legacy==