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Rachel Ruysch

Dutch artist

b. 1664 CE – d. 1750 CE World The Atlantic Lands

Rachel Ruysch (June 3, 1664 — Amsterdam, August 12, 1750) is a Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers, one of only three significant women artists in Dutch Golden Age painting, of whom Maria van Oosterwijk is also a flower painter, and Judith Leyster mainly not (the German botanic illustrator Maria Sybille Merian also moves to Amsterdam).

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Moran, J. (2017). Rachel Ruysch. History Atlas. Retrieved 23 October 2026, from https://www.historyatlas.com/people/rachel-ruysch/

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