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This is a list of botanical illustrator
Botanical illustrator
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...

s born or active in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

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Botanical illustration
Botanical illustration
Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, colour, and details of plant species, frequently in watercolour paintings. These are often printed with a botanical description in book, magazines, and other media...

 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.

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  • William Ashford
    William Ashford
    William Ashford was an English landscape painter who worked exclusively in Ireland.Ashford was born in Birmingham, England in 1746 and arrived in Dublin, Ireland in 1764 at the age of eighteen. Within three years of his arrival, Ashford was exhibiting with the Society of Artists on William Street...

     (born England c.1746-1824)
  • Lady Mabel Annesley  (1881-1959 New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

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  • Robert David FitzGerald
    Robert D. Fitzgerald
    Robert David FitzGerald was an Irish-Australian surveyor, ornithologist, botanist and poet...

      (1830-1892 Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    ) see also Irish plant Collectors

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  • Gertrude Hartland
    Gertrude Hartland
    Gertrude Hartland , was an Irish illustrator.She was born in Cork, the daughter of Richard Hartland and Mary Walsh. She was the niece of artist Henry Albert Hartland. She married Stephen Jackson....

     (1865-1954)
  • William Henry Harvey
    William Henry Harvey
    William Henry Harvey was an Irish botanist who specialised in algae.- Biography :William Henry Harvey was born at Summerville near Limerick, Ireland, in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. His father Joseph Massey Harvey, was a Quaker and prominent merchant...

      (1811-1866 Torquay
    Torquay
    Torquay is a town in the unitary authority area of Torbay and ceremonial county of Devon, England. It lies south of Exeter along the A380 on the north of Torbay, north-east of Plymouth and adjoins the neighbouring town of Paignton on the west of the bay. Torquay’s population of 63,998 during the...

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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous 20th-century fame established him among the leading Victorian poets...

      (born England 1844-1889)
  • Ellen Hutchins
    Ellen Hutchins
    Ellen Hutchins was an early Irish botanist.Hutchins was from Ardnagashel, Ballylickey, where her family had a small estate at the head of Bantry Bay, County Cork. Her father was a magistrate and died when she was two years old, leaving a wife and six children. She moved to Dublin and was looked...

     (1785-1815) see also Ardnagashel House Historic Cork Gardens
    Historic Cork Gardens
    -Annes Grove Gardens:Started by Richard Grove Annesley, in the grounds of a house near Fermoy dating from the early eighteenth century. Home to many Himalayan rhododendrons, some from seeds collected by Captain Frank Kingdon-Ward in Burma and Tibet in 1924...

     http://members.tripod.com/~Irishscientists/scientists/ELLEN.HTM, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P34044

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See also

  • Irish National Botanic Gardens
    Irish National Botanic Gardens
    The National Botanic Gardens are located in Glasnevin, 5 km north-west of Dublin city centre, Ireland...

  • List of Irish plant collectors
  • The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland
    The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland
    The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland was a book published in 1855 that featured 51 plates of nature printing by Henry Bradbury.-Description:The text was a scientific description of all the varieties of Ferns found in the British Isles...


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