Francesca Anderson is an American artist and botanical illustrator specializing in pen-and-ink illustrations. She has contributed greatly to the Hunt Institute at Carnegie Melon University and its mission by participating as an artist in the 7th International Exhibition of Botanical Art and Illustration in 1992, volunteering as a juror in the 17th International Exhibition of Botanical Art and Illustration in 2024, and serving as an Honorary Curator of Art.

Throughout her career, Anderson has participated in exhibitions both national and international, including the Brooklyn Museum; the Atlantic Gallery in Soho, New York; the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; the Missouri Botanical Garden; the National Wildlife Federation in Reston, Florida; Coady Contemporary in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach in Florida; the Kew Royal Botanic Garden in Surrey, England; the Berlin State Museums; and the Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art in Tokyo. Among her accomplishments, she received two gold medals and one silver gilt medal from the Royal Horticultural Society in London, the Distinguished Service Medal from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the James White Service Award from the American Society of Botanical Artists, which also awarded her with the 2009 Diane Bouchier Artist Award for Excellence in Botanical Art. In 2016, Anderson was commissioned to paint thirteen paintings for the Orchid Room in the famous 21 Club restaurant in Manhattan, New York. She has also been the Artist in Residence at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut for 2015 and has given lectures at the Cloisters Museum of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Cosmopolitan Club in New York, the Garden Club of America, and the 2024 American Society of Botanical Art Symposium.

Her illustrations appear in the following academic publications: Rosita Arvigo, Panti Maya Medicine Trail Field Guide (Cayo, Belize: Ix Chel Tropical Research Foundation, 1992) and Michael J. Balick and Andrew Henderson, Field Guide to the Palms of Belize (Bronx, NY: New York Botanical Garden, 2022; HI call no. DT100 332 B186f).