List of women botanical illustrators explained

This is a list of notable women botanical illustrators and artists.

A

Elfriede Abbe (1919–2012), American sculptor, engraver, illustrator^[1]
Harriet Isabel Adams (fl. 1906–1910)
Nancy Adams (1926–2007), New Zealand botanical artist, botanist, and museum curator
Beverly Allen (born 1945), Australian artist^[2]
Mary Morton Allport (1806–1895), English Australian artist, lithographer, etcher, and engraver
Blanche Ames Ames (1878–1969), American artist, activist, suffragist, and inventor
Lady Mabel Annesley (1881–1959), wood-engraver and watercolour painter^[3]
Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867–1944), American designer and illustrator
Mary Ann Armstrong (1838–1910), British botanical fern artist
Mary Daisy Arnold (–1955), botanical artist
Alison Marjorie Ashby (1901–1987), Australian botanical artist and plant collector
Louisa Atkinson (1834–1872), Australian botanical artist, illustrator, naturalist and writer

B

Clarissa Munger Badger (1806–1889), American botanical illustrator and poet^[4]
Anne Elizabeth Ball (1808–1872), Irish botanist and algologist^[5]
Mary Elizabeth Banning (1822–1903), American mycologist and botanical illustrator^[6]
Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818–1899), British-born botanist and painter active in South Africa^[7]
Dorothy Barclay (1892–1940), South African botanical painter^[8]
Anne Maria Barkly (c. 1838–1932), British botanist^[9]
Anne Henslow Barnard (died 1899), botanical illustrator^[10]
Eileen Barnes (1876–1956), Irish botanical artist^[11] ^[12]
Gertrud Bartusch, German botanical illustrator
Moyra Barry (1886–1960), Irish artist
- Rose Barton Gertrud Bartusch
Françoise Basseporte
Françoise Basseporte
Auriol Batten
Mary Battersby
Ruth Ellen Berkeley
Elizabeth Blackwell
Edith Blake
Susannah Blaxill
Agnes Block
Fanny Blood
Hertha Bokelmann
Winifred Boys-Smith
Olivia Marie Braida-Chiusano
Winifred M. A. Brooke
Rhona Brown
Margaret Warriner Buck
Priscilla Susan Bury
Mildred Anne Butler
Emilie von Büttner

C

Beatrice Orchard Carter
Elisa-Honorine Champin
Mary Agnes Chase
Maureen Elizabeth Church
Edith Clements
Lise Cloquet (1788–1860), French botanical painter^[13]
Elizabeth Conabere
Gillian Condy
Mary Elizabeth Connell
Catherine Teresa Cookson
Frances Crawshaw
Shirley Gale Cross
Clare Cryan
Lady Charlotte Wheeler Cuffe
Fanny Currey

D

Mary Delany
Louise-Cécile Descamps-Sabouret (born 3 October 1855), French painter and botanical artist^[14] ^[15]
Barbara Regina Dietzsch
Ethel May Dixie
Catharina Helena Dörrien
Bessie Downes
Doris Downes
Sarah Drake
Hélène Durand

E

F

Marianne Fannin
Madeleine Charlotte Fawkes
Susan Fereday
Minna Fernald
Mary Fielding
Louisa Finch, Countess of Aylesford
Ellen Thayer Fisher
Agnes Dunbar Moodie Fitzgibbon
Rosa Fiveash
Margaret Flockton
Margaret Forrest
Cherryl Fountain
Kathleen Fox
Millicent Franks (1886–1961), South African botanical illustrator
Ingeborg Frederiksen (1886–1976), Danish painter and illustrator
Magdalena Fürstin
Faith Fyles

G

H

I

Hannah Cassels im Thurn

J

K

L

Deborah Lambkin
Grania Langrishe (born 1934), Irish botanical artist^[16] ^[17]
Kathleen Annie Lansdell
Frieda Lauth
Mary Lawrance
Ann Lee
Sara Plummer Lemmon
Cythna Letty
Blythe Loutit
Lena Lowis

M

N

O

Helen Sophia O'Hara

P

R

S

T

V

W

Notes and References

Web site: Elfriede Abbe papers . Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives . 2 January 2022.
Web site: Beverly Allen - Biography . Jonathan Cooper . 21 November 2021.
Selborne . Joanna . Annesley, Lady Mabel Marguerite (1881–1959), wood-engraver and watercolour painter . 21 November 2021 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/59644 . 23 September 2004.
Web site: Clarissa Munger Badger . The Madison Historical Society . 21 November 2021.
Web site: Nualláin . Fiann Ó . A look back on Cobh's horticultural heroine, Anne Elizabeth Ball . Irish Examiner . 22 November 2021 . 27 February 2016.
Web site: Mary Elizabeth Banning, MSA SC 3520-13591 . Archives of Maryland (Biographical Series) . Maryland State Archives.
Web site: S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science . www.s2a3.org.za . 2020.
Web site: Dorothy Barclay . South African History Online . 22 November 2021.
Web site: Lady Barkly . National Portrait Gallery collection . 22 November 2021.
Book: Desmond . Ray . Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers . 23 December 2020 . CRC Press . 978-1-000-16286-8 . 22 November 2021 . en.
Lucey. John. Eileen Barnes (1876–1956): the contributions of a gifted artist, scientific illustrator and model-maker to Irish natural history. Irish Naturalists' Journal. 2015. 34. 2. 113–124.
Book: Butler. Patricia. Irish Botanical Illustrators & Flower Painters. 2000. Antique Collectors' Club. Suffolk. 9781851493579. 36–37.
Web site: Celebrating the Women of Botanical Art - Victoria Magazine . Victoria . 11 March 2022 . 23 April 2018.
Web site: Bonhams : Attributed to Louise-Cécile Descamps-Sabouret (French, born 1855) A still life of an apple; also another attributed to the same artist with six other botanical watercolors 11 x 8in.
Web site: Descamps-Sabouret, Louise Cécile . Benezit Dictionary of Artists . 2011 . 11 February 2022 . en . 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00049898. 978-0-19-977378-7 .
Web site: Grania Sybil Enid (née Wingfield), Lady Langrishe - National Portrait Gallery . National Portrait Gallery . 15 December 2021.
Web site: Collins . Liam . Powerful portrait of the 'Big House' and the lords and ladies who loved it so . independent . 15 December 2021 . en . 2 April 2006.