Mrs. Augusta Innes Withers (nee Baker) was a noted botanical painter, contributing to Benjamin Maund's Botanist, the Transactions of the Horticultural Society and the Illustrated Bouquet (1857-1863). She was appointed Flower-painter-in-ordinary to Queen Adelaide and later to Queen Victoria. She and Miss Drake illustrated James Bateman's monumental work on orchids, Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala (1837-41). J.C Loudon, writing in the Gardener's Magazine in 1831 praised her `high talents and great industry': `to be able to draw flowers botanically, and fruit horticulturally, that is, with the characteristics by which varieties and sub-varieties are distinguished, is one of the most useful accomplishments of your ladies of leisure, living in the country. It is due to Mrs. Withers of Grove Terrace, Lisson Grove, to state her talents for teaching these objects are of the highest order...'