Her friends and supporters included Teodor Pavlović, who wrote about her in Serbski Narodni List, and Sima Milutinović, who devoted her a poem in 1837.

[3] Ivanović traveled to Italy, France and Holland, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich between 1843-1845.

[4] She worked in Belgrade from 1846 to 1847, where she painted portraits of notable people of the era, including Princess Persida Nenadović and Voivode Stevan Knićanin.

In later years, she spent a lot of time traveling and living at different places, including Paris and Zagreb.

[1] She was stylistically in between the ideas of Biedermeier and Romanticism; she tried her hand at painting historical compositions but had her greatest achievements as a portrait painter.