[[File:Portrait of Rachel Ruysch by Godfried Schalcken 1899.jpg|thumb|[[Portrait]] of Rachel Ruysch by Godfried Schalcken, 1899.]]
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[[File:Portrait of Rachel Ruysch by Godfried Schalcken 1899.jpg|thumb|[[Portrait]] of Rachel Ruysch by Godfried Schalcken.]]
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'''Rachel Ruysch''' (1664 – 1750) was a [[Famous Still Life Paintings|still life]] [[Baroque]] Era [[painter]] from the Netherlands; she specialized in flowers. In 1679, Ruysch studied under Willem van Aelst, a Still-Life specialist. A portrait of the artist by Godfried Schalcken (1899) is exposed at the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, UK.
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'''Rachel Ruysch''' (1664 – 1750) was a [[Famous Still Life Paintings|still life]] [[Baroque]] Era [[painter]] from the Netherlands; she specialized in flowers. In 1679, Ruysch studied under Willem van Aelst, a Still-Life specialist. A portrait of the artist by Godfried Schalcken (1899) is exposed at the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, UK. Ruysch was a successful artist for nearly 70 years with a prominent international clientele.