Rachel Ruysch was born in The Hague, the daughter of the botanist, physician and anatomist, Frederik Ruysch. Her family settled in Amsterdam when she was young and she trained there with the still life painter Willem van Aelst, from 1679.
In the 1680s, Ruysch was influenced by the still life painter Otto Marseus van Schriek, who was famous for his...
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