Musée No:318.043 Size:A5 - 210mm x 148mm Margaretha Roosenboom (1843-1896) grew up

Margaretha Roosenboom (1843-1896) grew up in an artistic environment

Artist: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt

His break came when some of his sketches were shown to the Duke of Cumberland who then employed him to draw the horses at his stud in Newmarket and Windsor

May served as a captain in the "American Ambulance" – a temporary military hospital staffed by volunteers from the American colony in Paris

He was very successful with his work and was called the 'Rembrandt' among the Dutch flower bulb painters

Musée No:318.043 Size:A5 - 210mm x 148mm Margaretha Roosenboom (1843-1896) grew upNormandy Flowers Artist: Henri Fantin Latour Date: 1887 Henri Fantin Latour (1836 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings, portraits and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers. He studied at the cole des Beaux Arts in Paris, then from 1854 he devoted himself to copying the works of the old masters in the Louvre. Although he was friends with several artists that would go on to become the Impressionists,