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This Round: Rachel Ruysch 1664 - 1750

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Rachel Ruysch was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful career that spanned over six decades, she became the best documented woman painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

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In 1693 she married the Amsterdam portrait painter Juriaen Pool, with whom she had ten children. Throughout her marriage and adult life she continued to paint and produce commissions for an international circle of patrons. Other women at this time were expected to participate in art forms more traditionally practiced by women, such as sewing and spinning. Ruysch continued working as a painter after she married, mostly likely because her contribution to the family's income allowed them to hire help to care for their children.

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Choose your favourite Rachel Ruysch painting

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1) Still Life of Flowers, with Butterflies, Insects, a Lizard and Yoads, beside a Pool (1687)

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2) Vase with Flowers (1700)

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3) Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase (1710?)

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4) Blumenstrauß (1715)

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5) Fruit Still Life with Stag Beetle and Nest (1717)

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6) Still Life With Rose Branch, Beetle And Bee (1741)

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7) Forest Floor with a Classical Facade Beyond

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8) Roses, Convolvulus, Poppies, and Other Flowers in an Urn on a Stone Ledge

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DAUGHTER SIX

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The names are of Orthodox Saints, like Rachel‘s name

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1) Priscilla Larissa Florentina Domnika Adelaide Benedicta Apollonia Celestine Eudocia Helen Maxima Valentina
2) Verena Nana Hilary Eugenia Chloe Aquilina Berenice Agape Dorothy Fotini Laurencia Phoebe
3) Ruth Lucia Gaiana Dymphna Agatha Bibiana Ariadne Christina Euphemia Irene Nikephoros Winifred
4) Xenia Nymphodora Joanna Euphrosyne Chrysanthe Athena Brigid Aglaé Ebba Geneviève Ludmila Salome
5) Sebastiana Magdalene Gertrude Edana Aglaia Calliope Aurelia Cleopatra Euthymia Juliana Pelagia Zenaida
6) Vibiana Penelope Junia Eutychia Columba Aviv Callista Agnes Eleni Glafira Marcella Tatiana
7) Thecla Maria Glaphyra Elfleda Candida Antonina Barbara Daria Felicity Koralia Philadelphia Hilaria
8) Photine Kyra Fausta Dionysia Beatrix Aphrodite Cecilia Emilia Hermione Martina Timothea Athanasia

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formerly Belphoebe

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I am in the mood
to dissolve
in the sky.
- Virginia Woolf

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