active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Henry Cranke Andrews was an English botanist, botanical artist, and engraver, active from the 1790s into the early 1800s. He is unusual among botanical illustrators of his time because he did much of the work himself: drawing, engraving, coloring, and publishing his own books rather than working as only one part of a larger production process.

His first major publication, The Botanist's Repository, appeared in London between 1797 and 1812 and offered affordable images of new and rare plants to a growing audience of amateur gardeners. He is best remembered for Coloured Engravings of Heaths, issued over many years from 1794 to 1830, a large project centered on Erica species that reflected Britain's intense fascination with imported South African heaths.

Andrews lived in Knightsbridge and was married to Anne Kennedy, whose family had nursery connections and who assisted with plant descriptions. He also gave drawing and etching lessons, and his name remains part of botanical history through the standard author abbreviation “Andrews,” used when citing plant names he described.