Pierre-Joseph Redouté 1759-1840), was a Belgian painter and botanist from Belgium, renowned for his exquisite watercolors of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Château de Malmaison, many of which were published as large, colored stipple engravings. He was sometimes known as 'the Raphael of flowers' and has been called the greatest botanical illustrator of all time.
Alphonse Goossens (1866-1944) was a Belgian natural history illustrator who is best remembered for his orchid illustrations in Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidees.
Peter Gray is long established as an illustrator of books, magazines and newspapers with occasional forays into such fields as film storyboards and costume design, advertising and animation projects. Peter is also the author of many books for adults and children, which have been published in many languages all around the world. He has contributed illustrations to many books, of wide-ranging subject matter, from classic fiction to educational and historical subjects.
