Browse DSIDetails of the item << Previous Next >> Ruysch Rachel ° R. R. ; R. Ruijsch ; portrait painter Juriaen Pool (1666-1745) ; 10 1664 in The Hague, Netherlands 1750 Amsterdam, Netherlands prof. of anatomy & botany, ->Anthony Frederick Ruysch, who also prepared anatomical samples flower painter Jan Munnicks (brother-in-law) ; Maria (mother, daughter of architect Pieter Post; grandfather Pieter Post ;sister paintress Anna Ruysch apprenticed to painter Willem van Aelst Netherlands Düsseldorf Johann Wilhelm Elector Palatine ; 1708-16 court painter of Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz; member of the painters' guild at The Hague; Grand Duke of Tuscany with her father ; botanical painting & watercolour ; flower painting & still life ; http://joankyanni.blogspot.de/2014/10/fruit-flowers-and-insects-rachel-ruysch.html ; British Museum Natural History ; further links in wiki-entry ; AKL ; ThB 29 1935: 243 ; Sawyer 1971: 178 ; Pinault 1991: 43 & 139 ; Chansigaud 2009 ; Margócsy 2014: 4 & 119 ; Laura J. Snyder: Eye of the Beholder (London 2015): 11 & pl.1; Active in Amsterdam, The Hague & Düsseldorf; specialty: floral bouquets & still lifes, therefore a borderline-case as 'scientific' illustrator. 66737670
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