Henriette-Félicité Tassaert

She then trained at the Prussian Academy of Arts, studying under Johann Christoph Frisch, Anton Graff, and Daniel Chodowiecki, whose letters remain an important source of information about her biography.

She planned to travel to Dresden for further study, but the trip required the consent of Frederick the Great, who refused, and she did not visit that city until 1787, after his death.

She spent six months in study there, staying in the quarters of Sophie Dinglinger and copying a number of works from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in oil and pastel.

In 1787 she submitted some work to the Berlin Akademie, and that same year was made an honorary member after they met with acclaim; she continued exhibiting in that city until 1816.

Her preferred medium was pastel, and at her death a large number of such works in various genres was donated to the Kupferstichkabinett by her family; many were later auctioned off, and have since vanished from the record.