Frances Anne Edgeworth (née Beaufort) (1769–1865), known as Fanny, was an Irish botanical artist and memoirist.
She was educated at Mrs Terson's School at Portarlington, learning writing, drawing, dancing and French.
She studied art further under the English artist Bowring, Dublin-based Francis Robert West, and Raymond Deshouilleres of London.
A visitor to Edgeworthstown in 1813, James Hall, makes reference to her as a "successful" author, with a published novel, What You Choose to Call it or The Good Wife.
[9] Her father's biographer, Ellison, describes her as "an exceptionally talented artist in oils and crayons", though Edgeworth also worked in watercolour.
Edgeworth includes the Linnaean names, with her primary interest being in a complex group of plants, the Cryptogams.