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botanical illustrator Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species. They are generally meant to be scientifically descriptive about subjects depicted and are often found printed alongside a botanical description in boo ...

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Botanical illustration Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species. They are generally meant to be scientifically descriptive about subjects depicted and are often found printed alongside a botanical description in boo ...

involves the painting, drawing and illustration of plants and ecosystems. Often meticulously observed, the botanical art tradition combines both science and art, and botanical artists throughout the centuries have been active in collecting and cataloguing a huge variety of species.

Australian botanical illustrators

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* Mary Morton Allport (1806–1895) – born

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, England * Annick Ansselin – born in France, lives in Tasmania, Australia. Member of Botaniko * Alison Marjorie Ashby (1901–1987) – botanical artist and plant collector *

Louisa Atkinson Caroline Louisa Waring Calvert (; 25 February 1834 – 28 April 1872) was an early Australian writer, botanist and illustrator. While she was well known for her fiction during her lifetime, her long-term significance rests on her botanical work ...

(1834–1872) – writer, botanist and illustrator

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* Kim Bagot-Hiller (born 1975) – born in New South Wales *

Ferdinand Bauer Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (20 January 1760 – 17 March 1826) was an Austrian botanical illustrator who travelled on Matthew Flinders' expedition to Australia. Biography Early life and career Bauer was born in Feldsberg in 1760, the youngest son ...

(1760–1826) – born in

Feldsberg Valtice (; ) is a town in Břeclav District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,600 inhabitants. It is known as part of Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The historic town centre is ...

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

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Matthew Flinders Captain (Royal Navy), Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first littoral zone, inshore circumnavigate, circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then ...

' expedition to Australia * Susannah Blaxill – born in NSW, trained in UK and returned to Australia in 1992 * Eliza Blyth (1820–1894) – born in England

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* Kaye Chin * Margaret Castle – born in

Kyabram Kyabram () is a town in north central Victoria, Australia. Kyabram is located in the centre of a rich irrigation district in the Goulburn River Valley, north of Melbourne. The name of the town is thought to derive from an Aboriginal word Kia ...

, Victoria, Australia * Elizabeth Vivienne Conabere (1929–2009) – born in

Alexandra, Victoria Alexandra is a town in north-east Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 130 kilometres north-east of the State Capital, Melbourne. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), in the Sh ...

, botanical artist, writer and conservationist

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* Luke Davis (born 1982) – born in Victoria, Australia * Edgar Dell (1901–2008) – born in England * Pauline Dewar (born 1955) – born in Perth, Australia

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* Lesley Elkan (born 1972) – born in Sydney * Melinda Edstein – born in Sydney

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Susan Fereday Susan Fereday (born 1959) is an Australian artist, writer, curator and educator. She holds a doctorate from Monash University, Melbourne. She was born in Adelaide, South Australia. Biography Fereday studied to be a photographic technician ...

(1815–1878) – born in

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warw ...

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Margaret Flockton Margaret Lilian Flockton (29 September 1861 Sussex – 12 August 1953 Sydney), is most commonly recognized as a botanical artist famous for her botanical illustrations of ''"The Forest Flora of New South Wales"'' (some 300 plates), ''"A Criti ...

(1861–1963) – born in

Sussex Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, ...

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Margaret Forrest Margaret Elvire Forrest, Lady Forrest (née Hamersley; 22 October 1844 – 13 June 1929 in Picton, Bunbury, Western Australia, Bunbury) was the wife of Sir John Forrest. Personal life Born in Le Havre, France, she was a member of the prom ...

(1844–1929) – born in

Le Havre Le Havre is a major port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy (administrative region), Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the Seine, river Seine on the English Channel, Channe ...

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* E. E. Gostelow (1866–1944) – born in Sydney, NSW * Beverley Graham (1932–2010) – born in Melbourne, Victoria

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* Tanya Hoolihan – born in western NSW * Malcolm Ian Howie (1900–1936) – born in Creswick, Victoria. * Annie Hughes – born in Sydney

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* Anabella Innes (1826–1916) – born in Bathurst, died in Scotland. Her paintings are now kept at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra Born Annabella Innes in 1826 in Bathurst. She moved to Port Macquarie as a 16yo after the death of her father. She lived in Port Macquarie with her mother at her Uncle's home from 1843-1848. She published her watercolours under her married name Boswell.

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John Lewin John William Lewin (1770 – 27 August 1819) was an English-born artist active in Australia from 1800. The first professional artist of the colony of New South Wales, he illustrated the earliest volumes of Australian natural history. Many of his ...

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Angela Lober Angela may refer to: People * Angela (given name), a feminine name, includes a list of people with the name * Angela (surname), an Italian surname, includes a list of people with the name * Angela (enslaved woman) (fl. 1619–1625), an African ...

(born 1966) – born in Sydney * Marina Lommerse – born in Stamford, England. Cited in: Artists of Perth, Editor: Gabi Mills, M&P Publishing, Perth, Australia, 2017

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* Kathleen McArthur (1915–2001) – born in Brisbane, Queensland * Edward Minchen (1852–1913) – born in Middle Swan,

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, Western Australia * Steffi Michalski (born 1995) – born in New South Wales, Australia * Carolyn Murdoch (born 1959) lives in Perth , Western Australia

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* Philippa Nikulinsky (born 1942) – born in

Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie-Boulder (or just Kalgoorlie) is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder as the surroundi ...

, WA * Leonie Norton (born 1948) Sydney NSW

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Sydney Parkinson Sydney Parkinson ( 1745 – 26 January 1771) was a Scottish botanical illustrator and natural history artist. He was the first European artist to visit Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti. Parkinson was the first Quaker to visit New Zealand. ...

(c. 1745–1771) – born in Scotland * Emily Pelloe (1878–1941) – born in St Kilda, Victoria * Jacqueline Pemberton (born 1958) – born in

Andover Andover may refer to: Places Australia *Andover, Tasmania Canada * Andover Parish, New Brunswick * Perth-Andover, New Brunswick United Kingdom * Andover, Hampshire, England ** RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station United States * Andov ...

, England * Jenny Phillips (1942–2018) *

Olive Pink Olive Muriel Pink (17 March 1884 – 6 July 1975) was an Australian Botany, botanical illustrator, Anthropology, anthropologist, gardener, and activist for Aboriginal rights who spent much of her life in Central Australia. Pink spent much of h ...

(1884–1975) – born in

Hobart Hobart ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Located in Tasmania's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, it is the southernmost capital city in Australia. Despite containing nearly hal ...

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* Lewis Roberts (born 1950) * Celia Rosser (born 1930) *

Ellis Rowan Marian Ellis Rowan (30 July 18484 October 1922), known as Ellis Rowan, was a well-known Australian artist and botanical illustrator. She also did a series of illustrations on birds, butterflies and insects. Life Marian, the daughter of Maria ...

(1847?–1922) – born near Longwood, Victoria

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* Vera Scarth-Johnson (1912–1999) – born in

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Margaret Stones Elsie Margaret Stones (28 August 1920 – 26 December 2018), was an Australian botanical illustrator. Life Stones was born on 28 August 1920 in Colac, Victoria, Australia. Stones worked as principal contributing artist to ''Curtis's Bota ...

(1920–2018) – born in Colac, Victoria * Louise Janette Saunders (born 1955) – born in Benalla, Victoria

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Emil Todt Emil Hermann Todt (born 1810 or 1811; died 10 July 1900) was a German botanical artist and sculptor who was active in Australia from the 1850s to the 1880s. Todt was born in Berlin in 1810 or 1811, and studied sculpture under Ludwig Wilhelm W ...

(1810–1900) – born in Berlin, Germany

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* Patricia Weeks (born 1938) – Alice Springs, Central Australia; born in Melbourne * Jennifer Wilkinson (born 1947) – born in Tasmania

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References

* Botanical Art School of Melbourne * Shirley Sherwood's books on botanical illustration

External links

*Australian women wildflower artists
''Women of Flowers: Botanical Art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960s'' (2009)
{{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Australian Botanical Illustrators

Botanical illustrators Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

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