Ann Lee (illustrator)

[2] She was a pupil of artist and illustrator Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771) until his early death at sea in the employment of Joseph Banks.

[6] Her father was in correspondence with Carl Linnaeus during the 1770s and he would send his daughter's drawings to him to illustrate a point.

[7] Lee was commissioned by John Fothergill to draw plants from his garden and insects and shells from his museum.

[10] The Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter holds a collection of 79 of her drawings of butterflies, birds and insects donated by her descendent Marjorie Lee.

[8][2] A group of seven of her botanical illustrations, dated in 1771 when she was aged 17 or 18, sold for £3,125 at Christie's auction house in 2013.