Katharina Rozee

Accounts of her life claim that she was able to depict landscapes, animals, flowers, and insects with such detail and naturalism that her work was often mistaken for an oil painting.

One work in particular, described by the biographer Jacob Weyerman, depicted the trunk of a tree with a spider spinning its web and was said to have sold for “five hundred guilders”.

[2] According to Houbraken she made clever designs with silk fibers on panels of landscapes, animals, flowers and insects that looked so real that they confounded their viewers and common folk claimed she must be a magician.

[3] Houbraken's source was Michiel Carré, who told him about a portrait she made with such natural skin tones "that it looked like an oil painting".

[3] Rozee’s artwork was owned by well-known figures including Michiel Carré (1657-1747), the court painter of the King of Prussia, and Cosimo III de’ Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany.