Pancrace Bessa (1 January 1772 – 11 June 1846)[1] was a French natural history artist, best known for his botanical illustrations.

Their art connections went back to the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.

[4] Bessa also worked on the French royal watercolour collection on vellum the Velins du Roi from 1823 until his death.

In the early nineteenth century, Bessa, Redouté, Jean-Louis Prévost, Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé, and Madame Vincent raised France to pre-eminence in the genre of botanical painting.

Bessa and Redoute collaborated on the Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de L'Amerique Septentrionale, which appeared between 1810 and 1813.