Born: 23 July 1721, Germany
Died: 9 November 1782
Country most active: Germany
Also known as: Anna Dorota Lisiewska, Anna Dorothea Lisiewski
The following is excerpted from “400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time” by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.
A leading portrait painter of the period of Frederic the Great. Her father, a painter of renown, guided her early studies. In Stuttgart she was engaged to paint the members of the Court. The years from 1766 to 1770 she spent in Paris studying.
On her return to Berlin she was appointed to paint King Frederic, in 1772. She also painted still life, but excelled in portraiture. Many of the distinguished people of her time live on her canvases forever.