Elisabeth Johanna Koning artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale A study of anemones

Elisabeth Johanna Koning is one of the well-known Dutch botanical painters of the 19th century. At the age of sixteen she was already commissioned by the florist Van Eeden in her hometown of Haarlem to draw the rare flowers in his greenhouses. Between 1835 and 1848 she also did this for the Amsterdam banker and art collector Adriaan van der Hoop, at his Spaanberg country residence. In addition to refined watercolours and etchings, her oeuvre also includes oil paintings of flowers and/or fruits. In 1845 she became a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam. Elisabeth Koning was a student of still life painter, writer and poet A.A. Steenbergen. Exhibitions of her work have been held in Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam. Work in possession of: Teylers Museum Haarlem, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam.