List of women botanical illustrators

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

A

• Elfriede Abbe (1919–2012), American sculptor, engraver, illustrator
• Harriet Isabel Adams (fl. 1906–1910)
• Nancy Adams (1926–2007), New Zealand botanical artist, botanist, and museum curator
• Beverly Allen (born 1945), Australian artist
• 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
• Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867–1944), American designer and illustrator
• Mary Ann Armstrong (1838–1910), British botanical fern artist
• Mary Daisy Arnold (c. 1873–1955), 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
• Anne Elizabeth Ball (1808–1872), Irish botanist and algologist
• Mary Elizabeth Banning (1822–1903), American mycologist and botanical illustrator
• Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818–1899), British-born botanist and painter active in South Africa
• Dorothy Barclay (1892–1940), South African botanical painter
• Anne Maria Barkly (c. 1838–1932), British botanist
• Anne Henslow Barnard (died 1899), botanical illustrator
• Eileen Barnes (1876–1956), Irish botanical artist
• 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
• 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
• Barbara Regina Dietzsch
• Ethel May Dixie
• Catharina Helena Dörrien
• Bessie Downes
• Doris Downes
• Sarah Drake
• Hélène Durand

E

• Audrey Eagle
• Mary Emily Eaton
• Frances Anne Edgeworth
• Thérèse Ekblom
• Diana Conyngham Ellis
• Ella Howard Estill
• Nathalie Elma d'Esménard
• Barbara Everard

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

• Catherine Gage
• Giovanna Garzoni
• Adelia Sarah Gates
• Marguerite Primrose Gerrard
• Elizabeth Gray
• Mary Grierson
• Maria Gugelberg von Moos

H

• Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton
• Charlotte Hardcastle
• Florence May Harding
• Emily Harris
• Gertrude Hartland
• Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams
• Esmé Frances Hennessy
• Johanna Helena Herolt
• Georgina Hetley
• Orra White Hitchcock
• Sarah Hoare
• Rosemary Charlotte Holcroft
• Maria Elizabeth Holland
• Berthe Hoola van Nooten
• Annie E. Hoyle
• Regina Olson Hughes
• Ellen Hutchins
• Alice Clary Earle Hyde

I

• Hannah Cassels im Thurn

J

• Alice Jacob
• Eveline Annie Jenkins
• Barbara Jeppe
• Nina Jones

K

• Mary Maytham Kidd
• Pauline Kies
• Martha King
• Elizabeth and Mary Kirby
• Henriëtte Geertruida Knip

L

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

M

• Kathleen Marescaux
• Bessie Niemeyer Marshall
• Kathleen McArthur
• Mary McMurtrie
• Margaret Mee
• Mary Mendum
• Louisa Anne Meredith
• Maria Sibylla Merian
• Maria Morris Miller
• Maria Moninckx
• Harriet Morgan
• Henrietta Maria Moriarty

N

• Amanda Newton
• Philippa Nikulinsky
• Marianne North
• Carol Nourse

O

• Helen Sophia O'Hara

P

• Mary Maud Page
• Olive Coates Palgrave
• Marietta Pallis
• Ernestine Panckoucke
• Louise von Panhuys
• Deborah Griscom Passmore
• Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits
• Olivia Peguero
• Emily Pelloe
• Margaret Pieroni
• Barbara Pike
• Olive Pink
• Frederica Plunket
• Katherine Plunket
• Pierre Antoine Poiteau
• Elsa Pooley
• Clara Pope
• Caroline Pounds
• Anne Pratt

R

• Christie Repasy
• Sarah Rhodes
• Elsie Garrett Rice
• Ellen Robbins
• Emma Roberts
• Nellie Roberts
• Margaret Roscoe
• Stella Ross-Craig
• Celia Rosser
• Arabella Elizabeth Roupell
• Ellis Rowan
• Anne Rudge

S

• Cora Helena Sarle
• Marion Satterlee
• Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders
• Katharine Saunders
• Vera Scarth-Johnson
• Ellen Isham Schutt
• Helena Scott
• Susan Sex
• Lydia Shackleton
• Elsie Louise Shaw
• Jessica Rosemary Shepherd
• Isabella McHutcheson Sinclair
• Susie Barstow Skelding
• Dorothea Eliza Smith
• Ethelynde Smith
• Matilda Smith
• Lilian Snelling
• Holly Somerville
• Charlotte Caroline Sowerby
• Frances Stackhouse Acton
• Emily Stackhouse
• Mary Anne Stebbing
• Margaret Stoddart
• Margaret Stones
• Edith Frances Mary Struben
• Carrie Sweetser

T

• Cynthia Tait
• Alice Tangerini
• Anna Heyward Taylor
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Emma Homan Thayer
• Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer
• Estelle Thomson
• Elisa Marie Thornam
• Emily Jane Thwaits
• Anne Marie Trechslin
• Charlotte Georgina Trower
• Anna Maria Truter
• Elizabeth Twining

V

• Anna Maria Vaiani
• Elinor Frances Vallentin
• Vesque Sisters
• Henriette Vincent

W

• Mary Vaux Walcott
• Ada Hill Walker
• Anna Frances Walker
• Anna Maria Walker
• Wendy F. Walsh
• Jan Wandelaar
• Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst
• Charlotte, Lady Wheeler-Cuffe
• Emily Whymper
• Caroline Catharine Wilkinson
• Augusta Innes Withers
• Alida Withoos
• Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft
• Helen Adelaide Wood

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