Anna Rosina de Gasc

Anna Rosina was born into a family of painters of Polish noble origin in Berlin. 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, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the National Museum, Warsaw. == Later life ==

In 1741, Anna Rosina married the Prussian court painter (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 ==