Peter Charles Henderson is best-known for his designs for 14 plates for the writer on botany R. J. Thornton’s work ‘Temple of Flora’ (1804). Henderson also illustrated ‘The Seasons, or Flower-Garden’, which included his own ‘Treatise of General Instruction for Drawing and Painting Flowers’ (1806). He exhibited genre scenes, portraits (including miniatures), still lifes and botanical illustrations in London between 1799 and 1829 at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street. Financial difficulties may have necessitated his many changes of address. Although he moved between ten different London addresses during this period, Henderson remained in the area just north of Oxford Street.
