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Anna Rosina de Gasc

German artist (1713–1783)

Anna Rosina de Gasc
Self-portrait of Anna Rosina de Gasc, 1767
Born	Anna Rosina Lisiewska (1713-07-10)10 July 1713 Berlin
Died	26 March 1783(1783-03-26) (aged 69) Dresden
Nationality	German
Education	Georg Lisiewski (her father) Antoine Pesne
Known for	Painting

Anna Rosina de Gasc (born: Anna Rosina Lisiewska) (10 July 1713 – 26 March 1783) was a German portrait painter.

Early life

Anna Rosina was born into a family of painters of Polish noble origin in Berlin.^[1] Her mother was Maria Elizabeth Kahl from Pomerania. Her father, Georg Lisiewski (1674–1751), taught painting to Rosina and her siblings Anna Dorothea (1721–1782) and Christoph Friedrich (1725–1794). She later studied with the painter Antoine Pesne and learned his style of painting.

Career

In 1757, Rosina was appointed as court painter by Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst. During her ten-year stay at the court, she painted a gallery of forty ladies. Later, she moved to the ducal court in Brunswick, where she received a generous grant from Duchess Philippine Charlotte of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

Her work is held in the permanent collections of several museums worldwide, including the Kunsthistorisches Museum,^[2] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,^[3] and the National Museum, Warsaw.^[4]

Later life

In 1741, Anna Rosina married the Prussian court painter David Matthieu (1697–1755) and became the stepmother of Georg David Matthieu. After David's death, she married in 1760 to Louis de Gasc, who was a friend of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. She had two children with him.

Anna Rosina de Gasc died in 1783 in Dresden.

Honors

1757: Court painter in Anhalt-Zerbst
1769: Honorary Member of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
1777: court painter of the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Gallery

Portrait of Maria Antonia Branconi
Portrait of the Princess-Abbess Therese of Gandersheim
Duchess Anna Amalia, Hereditary Prince Karl August and Prince Frederick Ferdinand Constantin of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Johanna Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, later Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst
Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Portrait of a Lady, Anna Rosina Mathieu, 1754, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Portrait of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

References

^ Leopold von Zedlitz: Lisiewski in: Neues preussisches Adels-Lexicon, oder, Genealogische und diplomatische Nachrichten (1836–1843), vol. 6, Supplement, Gebrüder Reichenbach, 1839
^ "Therese Natalie (1728-1778) von Braunschweig - Wolfenbüttel als Äbtissin von Gandersheim, Kniestück". www.khm.at (in German). Retrieved 2021-03-26.
^ "Exchange: Portrait of a Lady". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
^ "Portrait of a lady".

Anna Rosina de Gasc, in: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker et al.: Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 23, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig, 1929, p. 283
Frances Borzello: Wie Frauen sich sehen. Selbstbildnisse aus fünf Jahrhunderten, Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich, 1998
Gottfried Sello: Malerinnen aus fünf Jahrhunderten, Ellert & Richter, Hamburg, 1988, ISBN 3-89234-077-3