Anna Ruysch

Anna Ruysch (baptized 19 December 1666, in The Hague – buried 7 January 1754, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter.

[1] When Anna was an infant the Ruysch family moved from The Hague to Amsterdam, where they lived on the Bloemgracht (flower canal).

He exhibited anatomical still lifes consisting of insects, flowers, and plants that would become subjects for Anna and Rachel Ruysch.

At the age of 15 or 16 Rachel was apprenticed to still life painter Willem van Aelst, and it is assumed that Anna was as well.

In 1742, her husband Isaak, who served as deacon in the Reformed Church, was listed as having the same income as his illustrious sister-in-law Rachel Ruysch: 2500 guilders.

A still life of flowers in a glass vase on a stone table ledge , c.1690s, oil on canvas, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A painting of grapes, two peaches, plums, and a chestnut, with a butterfly and a cockroach, on a partly-draped marble ledge by Anna Ruysch sold at auction in 2007
Painting of tulips and roses in a vase on a marble table, attributed to Anna Ruysch (previously attributed to Ernst Stuven ).