Ellen Thayer Fisher

Ellen "Nelly" Thayer Fisher (April 16, 1847 – October 15, 1911) was an American botanical illustrator.

[2] In addition to being shown in galleries and exhibitions, her paintings of flora and fauna were widely reproduced as chromolithographs by Boston publisher Louis Prang.

[12] They had seven children, Faith (later Mrs. William Wallace Fenn), Henry, Edward, Richard,[13] Margaret, Reginald, and Eleanor.

[14][15] Ellen was likely self-taught, but may have learned drawing and painting techniques from her younger brother, artist Abbott Handerson Thayer.

[19][20][21] She was one of the illustrators for Alice Ward Bailey's Flower fancies (1889), described as an "exquisite volume", "charming alike to the eye and to the mind".