Eduard van Ryswyck was born in 1871 into an Antwerp artist family and received his first painting and drawing lessons from his grandfather, Theodore van Rijswyck. He specialized in painting flowers and fruit in loose, natural arrangements. Exuberantly blooming roses and peonies were common in his paintings, but he also liked to use branches plucked from trees and shrubs in his compositions. It is not known where and when the painter died.