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A botanical illustrator is a person who paints, sketches or otherwise illustrates botanical 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.
Famous botanical illustrators include:
- James Andrew
- Ferdinand Bauer
- Franz Bauer
- Harry Bolus
- Olivia Marie Braida-Chiusano
- Gillian Condy
- Dioscorides
- Sydenham Edwards
- Georg Dionysius Ehret
- Anne-Marie Evans
- Walter Hood Fitch
- Frances W. Horne
- Barbara Jeppe
- Kawahara Keiga
- Cythna Letty
- Christine Marais
- Margaret Mee
- Maryanne North
- Sydney Parkinson
- Pierre-Joseph Redoute
- Celia Rosser
- James Sowerby
- Jill Smythies
- Elizabeth Twining
- Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst
The Linnaean Society of London awards the Jill Smythies Award for botanical illustration.
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