Botanical Art

     Botanical Art "is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species, frequently in watercolor paintings.

       This form of art was created during the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

     Early herbals and pharmacopoeia of many cultures have included the depiction of plants. The purpose of this was to assist identification of a species, most likely with some medicinal purpose.

16th Century - creators of Herbals and Florilegia Leonart Fuchs (1501-1566) - best known for the development of an early and important Herbal Basilus Besler (1561-1629) - botanical painter of the greatest garden of the 16th century

17th century - exploration Maria Sibylla Merian - Botanical & Natural History Artist

18th Century - exploration and botanical illustration * Ferdinand Bauer (1760 - 1826) - botanical painter on exploration of Australia (coming soon)  * Franz Bauer (1758 - 1840) - employed at Kew Gardens as the 'Botanick Painter to His Majesty' (coming soon)  Elizabeth Blackwell (1707 - 1758) - the first British woman to produce a herbal and the first woman to engrave as well as draw plants. Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770) - developed the Linnaean style of botanical illustration. Sydney Parkinson (1745 - 1771)- painter on expeditions to the South Seas and Australia * Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759 - 1840) - court painter (coming soon) ​ Depiction of a bird in nature Depiction of Flowers Fruit in two different perspectives