Adelia Sarah Gates (October 24, 1825 - September 21, 1912) was an American illustrator of botanical specimens. Her early work was as an elementary teacher and decorative watercolorist. She was an amateur decorative watercolorist and painter long before she was able to advance further into scientific illustration methods and to travel widely on collecting and documentation expeditions later in her life.
She was born in the Susquehanna Valley. Gates worked as a guardian, farmworker, teacher, and as a factory worker in the Lowell Mills before being attending college. In her thirties, she attended Antioch College, only to leave after two years due to health issues.
She started painting in her fifties, after taking lessons from Emilie Vouga in Geneva. Later in her life in San Francisco, she sought out further education in identification and naming of specimens from noted botanists Sara Plummer Lemmon and John Gill Lemmon, for which she traded lessons in "flower painting" and sketching.
During her lifetime, a colorful biography of her life, and travels including expeditions to paint specimens was written by Adela Elizabeth Orpen, published by the Religious Tract Society. After her death, over 600 of her works were exhibited and donated to the United States National Museum, which later became the Smithsonian Institution.
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