# List of women botanical illustrators

This is a list of notable women botanical illustrators and artists.
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z
* See also

## 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
* Winsome Fanny Barker (1907–1994), South African botanist and plant collector; illustrated Flowering Plants of South Africa
* Anne Maria Barkly (c. 1838–1932), British botanist
* Anne Henslow Barnard (died 1899), botanical illustrator
* Eileen Barnes (1876–1956), Irish botanical artist
* Moyra Barry (1886–1960), Irish artist
* Rose Barton (1856–1929), Anglo-Irish artist and watercolourist
* Gertrud Bartusch (died 1917), German botanical illustrator
* Françoise Basseporte (1701–1780), French painter, Royal Painter for the King's Garden and Cabinet
* Auriol Batten (1918–2015), South African botanical illustrator
* Mary Battersby (fl. 1801–1841), Irish artist and naturalist
* Ruth Ellen Berkeley (1845–1914), English mycologist, collector of fungi specimens and scientific botanical illustrator
* Elizabeth Blackwell (1699 –1758), botanical illustrator and engraver, made medical reference work A Curious Herbal which was "among the earliest publications on botany by a woman"
* Edith Blake (1846–1926), Irish botanical illustrator and writer
* Marjorie Blamey (1918–2019), English painter and illustrator, founding member of the charity Plantlife
* Susannah Blaxill (born 1954), Australian botanical illustrator and watercolourist
* Agnes Block (1629–1704), Dutch art collector and horticulturalist
* Fanny Blood (1758–1785), English illustrator and educator
* Hertha Bokelmann (1915-2005), South African botanist and botanical illustrator
* Sheila Bownas (1925–2007) British textile designer and botanical illustrator
* Winifred Boys-Smith (1865–1939), English science artist, professor, and school principal
* Olivia Marie Braida-Chiusano (born 1948), American botanical artist, author, and educator
* Winifred M. A. Brooke (1893–1975), British botanist, illustrator and author; the plant genera Misbrookea and Cleistocactus brookeae were named in her honour
* Rhona Brown (1922-2014), South African botanical artist
* Margaret Warriner Buck (1857-1929), American botanical artist, specialized in depicting California wildflowers
* Priscilla Susan Bury (1799–1872), English botanist and illustrator
* Mildred Anne Butler (1858–1941), Irish artist who specialized in watercolour and oil painting
* Emilie von Büttner (1804–1867), German flower and botanical painter

## 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
* Margaret Rebecca Dickinson (1821–1918) botanical artist who lived in north-east England and the Scottish Borders
* 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
* Rica Erickson (1908–2009) Australian naturalist, historian, author and teacher; the orchid genus Ericksonella was named in her honour
* Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen (1912–2006) South African botanist; collected over 36,000 herbarium specimens of South African flora
* Ella Howard Estill
* Nathalie Elma d'Esménard
* Barbara Everard

## F

* Marianne Fannin
* Madeleine Charlotte Fawkes
* Sarah Featon (1848–1927), New Zealand botanical artist; illustrated The Art Album of New Zealand Flora, the first full-colour art book to be printed in New Zealand
* 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
* Elsie Herbold Froeschner (1913–2006), American scientific illustrator
* Magdalena Fürstin
* Faith Fyles

## G

* Catherine Gage
* Giovanna Garzoni
* Adelia Sarah Gates
* Marguerite Primrose Gerrard
* Elizabeth Gray
* Mary Grierson
* Maria Gugelberg von Moos
* Louise Guthrie (1879–1966) South African botanist and botanical artist, known for her depictions of South African protea species

## H

* Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton
* Charlotte Hardcastle
* Lucy Hardcastle (circa 1771–1834), British botanist and teacher; ran a school in Derby from the late 1700s until the 1830s
* Florence May Harding
* Emily Harris
* Gertrude Hartland
* Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams
* Esmé Frances Hennessy
* Johanna Helena Herolt
* Sabine Helms (1866-1929) Danish amateur botanist
* Georgina Hetley
* Helen Joan Hewson (1938–2007), Australian botanist and botanical illustrator
* Helen Burns Higgs (1897–1983), Bahamian writer, journalist and botanical illustrator; specialized in research on Bahamian herbal medicine and cuisine
* Orra White Hitchcock
* Sarah Hoare
* Rosemary Charlotte Holcroft
* Maria Elizabeth Holland
* Sarah Hoare (1777–1856), British writer and artist known for her scientific poetry
* 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
* Catharine Johnston (1794–1871) English botanical illustrator
* 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
* Harriet Mason (1845–1932) English and South African song collector, botanical illustrator, plant collector, poor-law inspector, and author
* Kathleen McArthur
* Mary McMurtrie
* Margaret Mee
* Mary Mendum
* Louisa Anne Meredith
* Maria Sibylla Merian
* Maria Morris Miller
* Margaret Olive Milne-Redhead (1904–1997), also known as Olive Shaw or Margaret Olive Shaw; English artist and botanical illustrator
* 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
* Jean Paton (born 1929) British botanist,bryologist, and botanical illustrator
* Susan J. Patrick (born 1944) Australian botanist, taxonomist, illustrator, and ecologist
* Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits
* Ethel Anson Peckham (1879–1965) American horticulturist and botanical artist; founding member of the American Iris Society
* 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
* Della Purves (1945–2008) British botanical artist

## Q

* Rosane Quintella (1959–2020) Brazilian botanical artist and teacher

## R

* Christie Repasy
* Sarah Rhodes
* Elsie Garrett Rice
* Ellen Robbins
* Emma Roberts
* Nellie Roberts
* Mary Lou Romney (1929–2003), American painter
* 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
* Sarah Simblet (born 1972) graphic artist, writer and broadcaster
* 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
* Olga Stewart (1920–1998) Scottish botanist and botanical artist
* 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
* Winifred Walker (1882-1965) British artist and botanical illustrator
* Wendy F. Walsh
* Jan Wandelaar
* Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst
* Charlotte, Lady Wheeler-Cuffe
* Emily Whymper
* Caroline Catharine Wilkinson (1822–1881) Welsh botanist; authored Weeds And Wild Flowers: Their Uses, Legends, And Literature
* Augusta Innes Withers
* Alida Withoos
* Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft
* Helen Adelaide Wood (1860–1927) British botanical artist and scientific illustrator; one of the first women museum workers in the Caribbean
* Florence Woolward (1854–1936) English botanical illustrator and author
* Winifred Grace Wright (1891–1978) English chemist; illustrated a pocket guide on the flowers of the Province of Natal