Rachel Ruysch
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Rachel Ruysch was a Dutch still-life painter from the Dutch Republic. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful
Portrait of Rachel Ruysch by Godfried Schalcken
Roses, Convolvulus, Poppies, and Other Flowers in an Urn on a Stone Ledge (1688)
Flowers on a tree trunk; this is a typical example of the "forest floor" genre made popular by Marseus van Schrieck
Flowers on a stone slab - her most common style around 1700
Juriaen Pool
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Juriaen Pool was an 18th-century painter from the Dutch Republic best known as the husband of Rachel Ruysch, with whom he had ten children.
Rachel Ruysch
…Agnes Block and who, like her father, also worked with the plant collectors Jan and Caspar Commelin. In 1693 she married the Amsterdam portrait painter Juriaen Pool, with whom she had ten children. Throughout her marriage and adult life she continued to paint and produce commissions for an international circle of…
Self-portrait in allegorical scene for the orphanage. He is shown wearing the traditional orphan clothing with a red jacket and a blue sleeve.