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Anna Dorothea Therbusch
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Anna Dorothea Therbusch (born Anna Dorothea Lisiewski, Anna Dorota Lisiewska, 23 July 1721 – 9 November 1782) was a prominent Rococo painter born in the Kingdom of Prussia. About 200 of her works survive, and she painted at least eighty-five verified portraits.
Anna Dorothea Therbusch was born in Berlin. She came from a noted family, the daughter of Maria Elisabetha (née Kahlow) and Georg Lisiewski (1674–1751), a Berlin portrait painter of Polish stock who arrived in Prussia in 1692 as part of the retinue of the court architect Johann Friedrich Eosander von Göthe. Georg taught Anna, her sister Anna Rosina Lisiewski and their brother Christian Friedrich Reinhold to paint. She trained as a painter during her teens. Anna Dorothea and her elder sister Anna Rosina were hailed as Wunderkinder of painting. In her youth, she painted copies of Antoine Pesne's fetes galantes and, like Pesne, learned to emulate the styles of Watteau, Lancret, and Pater – artists who Frederic II especially admired.
Therbusch painted in all genres. She also did history paintings, and experimented with Dutch-style genre scenes similar to those of Gerard Dou.
By the end of her life, she had received honours from Berlin, Stuttgart, and Mannheim. She made lucrative commissions from her works and eventually received royal patronage, after many letters of introduction from her patrons in Paris, Italy, Germany, and Prussia.
Anna Dorothea married Berlin innkeeper Ernst Friedrich Therbusch in 1742 and gave up painting until around 1760 to help her husband in the restaurant. Not until her spousal obligations were discharged, as a "short-sighted, middle-aged woman", did she return to her art career in 1760. She had three children by the age of forty. She left Berlin to paint in Stuttgart for the court of Duke Karl Eugen, Duke of Wurttemberg, seeking increased recognition for her works.
The Swing and Game of Shuttlecock (Neues Palais, Potsdam) are a pair of conversation pieces that defined her first period of work. Game of Shuttlecock was signed and dated in 1741.
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