'Portrait of Wilhelmine Encke' ~ Anna Dorothea Therbusch

[mythosidhe]

My Twitter friend Kat Aubery ( @carnivalerian) posted this portrait in her blog The Minx's Farrago yesterday, and I had to swipe it, for obvious reasons. But not only is this an utterly fabulous painting, I'm rather astounded to find that Kat has managed to dredge up an 18th century female painter that I've never heard of! Granted, she's Prussian

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[fiofiorina]

I have somthing for you - though the picture isn't that good, as it was a very bright day and the canvas difficult to photograph:

http://fiofiorina.livejournal.com/198450.html

[mythosidhe]

Beautiful! Thank you for the link :)