Louise van Panhuys

She received artistic training from her mother, who was an amateur painter, and from a relative, Christian Georg Schütz the Elder.

Through family connections, she made the acquaintance of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe early in life and they later corresponded.

Between 1802 and 1805 she took two long trips to England with her brother, where she made contact with English naturalists and botanical illustrators in order to continue her education as a painter.

Willem was appointed Governor-General by King William I of the Netherlands, but his tenure in office lasted only a few months as he died in July 1816.

She was influenced by the botanical art of Maria Sibylla Merian and the travel writings of Alexander von Humboldt.