Eleonora Tscherning

Eleonora Christine Tscherning (1817–1890) was a Danish painter who created flower paintings and later landscapes, often working in the open air.

[1][2] Born on 4 July 1817 in Helsingør, Eleonora Tscherning was the daughter of military officer Adam Tobias Lützow (1775–1844) and Bodil Rasmussen (1790–1865), his unmarried housekeeper.

The family moved to Copenhagen where she studied painting at the school run by her cousin, the author and flower painter Christine Løvmand.

Tscherning, who encouraged her to continue painting but marriage to a politician and raising a family of five children left her little time for creative work.

After her husband died in 1874, she supplemented her income by running a flower painting course for young women together with her youngest daughter, Sara Ulrik (1855–1916).