Anna Rosina de Gasc
{{Short description|German artist (1713–1783)}}
{{infobox artist
| name = Anna Rosina de Gasc
| image = Anna Rosina de Gasc - self-portrait (1767).jpg
| caption = Self-portrait of Anna Rosina de Gasc, 1767
| birth_name = Anna Rosina Lisiewska
| birth_date = {{birth date|1713|7|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = Berlin
| death_date = {{death date and age|1783|3|26|1713|7|10|df=y}}
| death_place = Dresden
| nationality = German
| field = Painting
| training = Georg Lisiewski (her father)
Antoine Pesne
}}
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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=LJ8wAAAAYAAJ&dq=Friedericke+Julie+Lisiewski&pg=RA1-PA65 Leopold von Zedlitz: Lisiewski in: Neues preussisches Adels-Lexicon, oder, Genealogische und diplomatische Nachrichten (1836–1843), vol. 6, Supplement, Gebrüder Reichenbach, 1839] 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,{{Cite web|title=Therese Natalie (1728-1778) von Braunschweig - Wolfenbüttel als Äbtissin von Gandersheim, Kniestück|url=https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/2486/|access-date=2021-03-26|website=www.khm.at|language=de}} the University of Michigan Museum of Art,{{Cite web|title=Exchange: Portrait of a Lady|url=https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/38811/view|access-date=2021-03-26|website=exchange.umma.umich.edu}} and the National Museum, Warsaw.{{Cite web|title=Portrait of a lady|url=https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/503996}}
Later life
In 1741, Anna Rosina married the Prussian court painter {{ill|David Matthieu|de}} (1697–1756) 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
File:Maria Antonia Pessina von Branconi by A.R. de Gasc (1770, Braunschweig).jpg|Portrait of Maria Antonia Branconi
File:Therese von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel by A.R. de Gasc (1773).jpg|Portrait of the Princess-Abbess Therese of Gandersheim
File:Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbuettel 1773-74.jpg|Duchess Anna Amalia, Hereditary Prince Karl August and Prince Frederick Ferdinand Constantin of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
File:Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp by A.R. de Gasc (Castle Gottorf).jpg|Johanna Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, later Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst
File:Anna Rosina Lisiewska - Herzogin Elisabeth Friederike Sophie von Württemberg.jpg|Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
File:Anna Rosina Matthieu - Portrait of a Lady 1754.jpg|Portrait of a Lady, Anna Rosina Mathieu, 1754, University of Michigan Museum of Art
File:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.PNG|Portrait of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
References
{{Reflist}}
- 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}}
External links
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- {{LBMV PPN|324511345}}
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Category:Neoclassical painters
Category:18th-century German painters
Category:18th-century German women artists
Category:18th-century Polish nobility
Category:German portrait painters
Category:German court painters
Category:German neoclassical painters
Category:German people of Polish descent