Rachel Ruysch was a Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers. She was born in The Hague, but moved to Amsterdam when she was three. Her father Frederik Ruysch, a famous anatomist, and botanist, was appointed a professor there. He gathered a huge collection of rarities in his house. She assisted her father decorating the prepared specimen in a "liquor balsamicum" with flowers and lace. At fifteen Ruysch was apprenticed to Willem van Aelst, … Wikipedia
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Rachel Ruysch, mother of 10, began painting in the 17th century and worked into her 80s in the following century. www.gadflyonline.com/01-14-02/ftr-women.html
This was the opening sentence in the January 2000 edition of the magazine Kunstschrift entirely devoted to Rachel Ruysch. www.hoogsteder.com/journal/article.aspx?ID=5
... Artist Portfolio Rachel Ruysch Dutch, 1664-1750 Flowers in a Vase , n.d. Roses, Convolvulus, Poppies and Other Flowers in an Urn on a Stone Ledge , ca. 1745... www.nmwa.org/collection/portfolio.asp?LinkID=388