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Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) [1] was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly. Merian was a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family.
Fruit still life with insects, ca. 1690. Johanna Helena Herolt (1 May 1668 – after 1723) was an 18th-century botanical artist from Germany. She was well-known for her paintings similar to her mother, Maria Sibylla Merian, with her draftsmanship.
Dorothea Maria Graff was born in Nuremberg as the daughter of the painters Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas Graff, and learned to paint from them and her sister Johanna who was ten years older. [2] In 1681 her mother returned to Frankfurt without her father, in order to live with her mother after her stepfather Jacob Marrel's death. [3]
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), naturalist [1]: 206 Marie Meurdrac (c. 1610–1680), French chemist and alchemist Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), Italian mathematician and the first female PhD
Anna Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) - naturalist and illustrator, dtr. of Matthäus the Elder; Johann Matthäus von Merian (1659–1716) - pastel painter, son of Matthäus the Younger; Johanna Helena Herolt (1668-1723) - painter, dtr. of Maria Sibylla Merian; Dorothea Maria Graff (1678–1745) - dtr. of Maria Sibylla Merian, married painter ...
It was also Marrell who asked Mignon to train his live-in stepdaughter Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) in the art of still-life painting. Maria Sibylla Merian was the daughter of the engraver Matthew Merian (1647–1717). Maria Sibylla Merian achieved distinction as a flower painter. [7]
A rock and roll romance. Two stars from the movie “School of Rock” have tied the knot more than two decades after meeting on the beloved 2003 film. Angelo Massagli and Caitlin Hale were just ...
Maria Magdalena de Bry died in 1645 and the following year Matthäus married Johanna Sibylla Heim. [1] Five years later, Matthäus died, leaving his wife with two small children, Anna Maria Sibylla Merian (born 1647), who later became a pioneering naturalist and illustrator, and a son, Maximilian, who died before his third birthday.