Franz Andreas Bauer
Born	14 March 1758 (1758-03-14) Feldsberg,Empire of Austria
Died	11 December 1840(1840-12-11) (aged 82) Kew, England
Education	Father Norbert Boccius
Known for	Botanical illustrator
Notable work	Delineations of Exotick Plants,Illustrations of Orchidaceous Plants,Strelitzia Depicta
Patrons	King George III

Franz Andreas Bauer (later Francis) (14 March 1758 – 11 December 1840) was an Austrianmicroscopist andbotanical artist.The standardauthor abbreviationF.A.Bauer is used to indicate this person as the author whenciting abotanical name.^[1]

Born in Feldsberg,Lower Austria (nowValtice, Czech Republic), he was the son of Lucas Bauer (died 1761),court painter to thePrince of Liechtenstein, and brother of the paintersJosef Anton (1756–1830) andFerdinand Bauer (1760–1826). After Lucas Bauer's death, his wife, Therese continued to give her three sons lessons in art and illustration. Josef succeeded his father as court painter and eventually became keeper of the gallery inVienna.

Francis and Ferdinand acquired their first experience of botanical illustration with the arrival of Father Norbert Boccius, Abbot of Feldsberg, in 1763, and produced over 2,000 watercolour drawings of plant specimens under his guidance. They were then employed by Count Dietrichstein as flower painters inVienna - Franz illustrated works by the BaronNikolaus Joseph von Jacquin and his son BaronJoseph Franz von Jacquin at the Schönbrunn Imperial Gardens; Franz then accompanied the latter to London. There Jacquin the younger introduced him toSir Joseph Banks, who, recognizing his extraordinary talent, secured him a position as first botanical illustrator at theRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Museum, at an annual salary of £300. He stayed there for the rest of his life, producing a wealth of superb botanical and anatomical illustrations, became a member of theRoyal Society and was appointed ‘Botanic Painter to His Majesty'King George III.

By 1790, Bauer had settled in at Kew, and was involved in detailed paintings and drawings of flower dissections, often at microscopic level, and taking great care in the hand-colouring of lithographic copies of his work. During this time he tutoredQueen Charlotte,Princess Elizabeth andWilliam Hooker in the art of illustration, and often entertained friends and botanists at his home. He died in 1840, and is buried atSt. Anne's Church, Kew,^[2] next toThomas Gainsborough. His legacy is to be found in such sumptuous publications asDelineations of Exotick Plants (1796–1803), his collaboration with John LindleyIllustrations of Orchidaceous Plants (1830–38), and his delicate lithographs inStrelitzia Depicta (1818).

Erica massoni L.f.

Cypripedium calceolus L.

• Delineations of Exotick Plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew. Drawn and coloured and the Botanical characters displayed according to the Linnean System by Francis Bauer. Published byWilliam Aiton, d.c. (Preface bySir Joseph Banks.) 1796-83
• The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, illustrated by drawings on stone from the sketches of Francis BauerbyJohn Lindley. London, Ridgways and Treuttel, Wurtz, 1830-1838.
• Genera filicum; or Illustrations of the ferns, and other allied genera; from the original coloured drawings of the late Francis Bauer; with additions and descriptive letterpress, by SirWilliam Jackson Hooker. London, H. G. Bohn, 1842.

• Stewart, Joyce and William T. Stearn. The orchid paintings of Franz Bauer. Timber Press,. Portland, Or. 1993LCCN 93-241124ISBN 0881922439
• Reinikka, Merle A. A History of the Orchid. Timber Press,. Portland, Or. 1995LCCN 95-10784ISBN 0881923257

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• Drawings by Bauer digitized by theJohn Carter Brown Library.
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