Botanical illustrators

A botanical illustrator is a person who paints, sketches or otherwise botanical illustrations subjects such as trees and flowers. The job requires great artistic skill, attention to fine detail, and technical botanical knowledge. Typical illustrations will be in watercolour, in life size, or if not, the scale shown, and show face and reverse of leaves, flowers, bud, seed and root system. (adapted from the English Wikipedia article.)

Ferdinand Bauer: Plate 5 from Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae showing habit, colour, form and exploded details of Stylidium violaceum

The following is an incomplete list of notable botanical illustrators:

• Alois Auer
• Ferdinand Bauer
• James Sowerby