Lilian Snelling
Highly regarded by her contemporaries and even described by botanist Dr Henry Noltie as “the greatest botanical artist of her time and among the greatest of all time”, Lilian Snelling dedicated her life to portraying plants with exacting scientific clarity and striking beauty. Today, over 600 of her works are cared for by the RHS Lindley Library, charting her development from enthusiastic amateur to the principal artist of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine for three decades.