Anna Peters - Artist Info

About Anna Peters

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    Anna Peters (b.1843 Mannheim - d.1926 Sonnenberg/Möhringen)

    The daughter of landscape painter Pieter Francis Peters and his wife Heinrika Mali, she was born in Mannheim in 1843. Both parents came from Dutch painter families. Pieter Francis Peters instructed all his children, boys and girls, in painting.

    Self-confident, Anna Peters called herself a flower painter as of 1868, despite all social reservations against female artists in those days. She regularly showed works in exhibitions. Besides her numerous flower paintings, which made her famous, she also painted landscapes in her immediate surroundings. She took many trips, including to Florence, Rome and Lugano, but also to the Thurin...

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