List of Irish botanical illustrators

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

[edit] Irish Botanical Artists

• William Ashford (Born England c1746-1824)
• Lady Mabel Annesley (1881-1959 New Zealand) [1], [2]
• Anne Elizabeth Ball (1808-1872) [3], [4]
• Eileen Barnes (c1910-1950) [5]
• Myra Barry (1886-1960)
• Rose Barton (1856-1929) [6], [7], [8], [9]
• Mary Battersby (c1804-1841)
• Frances Beaufort (Mrs.Lovell Edgeworth) (1769-1864)
• Lady Edith Blake(nee Bernal Osborne) (1845-1926)
• Samuel Brocas (c1792-1847)
• Sarah Brooks (1850-`1928 Australia) [10]
• Mildred Anne Butler (1858-1941) [11], [12]
• Gerard Byrne (Born 1958) [13], [14]
• Mrs. James Cooksson (nee Murray)
• Lady Charlotte Wheeler Cuffe (nee Williams) (Born England 1867-1967) see also Irish plant Collectors [15], [16]
• Clare Cryan, [17], [18]

• Mary Delaney (Born England 1700-1788)
• Samuel Dixon (c1748-69)
• Andrew Hastings Doyle (c1774-1841) [19]
• George Victor Du Noyer (1817-1869) [20]
• Diana Conyngham Ellis (nee Monsell) (1813-1851)

• John Ellis (botanist) (c1705-1776 England) [21], [22]

• Marianne Fannin (Mrs Roberts) (1848-1938 South Africa)
• Robert David Fitzgerald (1830-1892 Australia) see also Irish plant Collectors
• Kathleen Fox (1880-1963)
• Elizabeth Grey (nee Sharpe) (Died 1903)
• James Gwim (c1720-1769)
• Grace Henry (Born Scotland 1868-1953)

• Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815) see also Ardnagashel House Historic Cork Gardens [23], [24]

• Hans Iten (Born Switzerland 1874-1930) [25], [26], [27]

• Alice Jacob (1862-1921) [28]
• Andrea Jameson (Born Norway 1953)
• Patricia Jorgensen (Born 1936) [29]
• William Kilburn (1745-1818) [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35]
• Deborah Lambkin (Born 1970) [36], [37], [38]
• Grainne Langrishe
• Susan Lecky (1837-1896) [39]
• Sir John Langham (1894-1972)
• Catherine (1815-1892) and Barbara (1817-1859) Gage
• Robert Gibbings (1889-1958), see also Robert Day
• Fr. Jack Hanlon (1913-1968)
• Gertrude Hartland (1865-1954)
• Margaret Hill
• William Henry Harvey (1811-1866 Torquay)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins (Born England 1844-1889)
• William Howis (1804-1882)
• Phillip Hussey (1713-1783)
• William Kilburn (1745-1818) [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45]
• Samuel McCloy (1831-1904), [46], [47]
• James Mannin (Died 1779) [48]
• Kathleen (nee Dennis) Marescaux (1868-1944) [49]
• Rev. D.P.Murray (Born England 1887-1967)

• Andrew Nicholl (1804-1886 London) [50], [51], [52], [53]

• Helen Sophia O'Hara (1846-1920)
• Geraldine O'Brien later Hely-Hutchinson
• Dermod O'Brien (1865-1945)
• Raymond Piper (Born England 1923) [54], [55], [56]
• Frederica Plunket [57]
• Katherine Plunket (1820-1932) [58], [59]
• Caroline Pounds (nee Elam)
• Frances Proskitt (Born England)
• Sophia Rosamond Praeger (1867-1954) [60], [61]
• Sarah Purser (1848-1943) [62]
• Martha King (c1830-1997 New Zealand) [63]
• Susan Sex [64], [65]
• Lydia Shackleton (1828-1914) [66], [67], [68], [69]
• James Stuart (c1802-1842)
• John Templeton (1766-1825) [70]
• William Edward Trevithick (1899-1958)

• Wendy Walsh (Born 1915) [71], [72], [73]
• Mary Ward (nee King) (1827-1869)
• Frances (Fanny) Wilmot Curry (1848-1917)
• David Wilson (1873-1935)
• Isaac Whitehead (c1819-1881) [74]
• John White (Born England c1577-1590)
• Elizabeth (Lolly) Yeats (1868-1940) see also William Butler Yeats, Jack B. Yeats, [75]

[edit] Reference

• Patricia Butler,Irish Botanical Illustrators, Antique Collectors Club, London 2000 ISBN 1-85149-357-3

[edit] External links

• Botanic Garden Collection, [76]
• Dr. E Charles Nelson, [77]