Nellie Roberts
Nellie Roberts was an English botanical and scientific illustrator from Lambeth. She was the first and longest serving Royal Horticultural Society orchid artist. Roberts was employed to paint orchids that had gained RHS awards and built a reference collection of images of cultivars and hybrids for the Society. She was awarded the RHS Gold medal in 1900 and a silver Veitch Memorial Medal in 1954 for the quality of her art.
