Frederick Andrews Walpole (17 January 1861 Port Douglas, Essex County, New York - 11 May 1904 California) was a botanical illustrator employed by the United States Department of Agriculture. Walpole's documented life is fragmentary. In 1871 his family relocated to Chicago where Frederick studied under an artist named Sloan, possibly Junius R. Sloan (1827–1900), a landscape and portrait painter of the period. In 1882 Walpole left Chicago and journeyed by rail to Southern Oregon to acquire land for a homestead. One of his journals records that on arriving at Redding, California in the Sacramento Valley on 22 March, he found the stage fare of $36.00 to Jacksonville beyond his means. He accordingly freighted his luggage ahead and walked the 177 miles remaining. After combing the area, he settl