Musée No:325.106 seated He created a series of

He created a series of 37 portraits of the most enchanting women of Rome

Hester Marian Wait Lay

where he learned the practice of En Plein Air

and as the patron of La Fontaine

From about 1867 onwards she focused on painting and watercolours of flower still lifes

Musée No:325.106 seated He created a series ofDutch Natural History Watercolour Illustration Artist: Anselmus Botius de Boodt Date: 1596 1610 Anselmus Botius de Boodt was born in Bruges in 1550. He was a Flemish humanist, mineralogist, physician and naturalist and a gifted draughtsman. De Boodt joined the Emperors court in Bohemia as a medical doctor in 1588, and in 1604 he was put in charge of preparing the Historia Naturalis, an exquisitely illustrated encyclopaedia of the worlds then known