Musée No:325.129 Size:A2 - 594mm x 420mm Random fact to finish: aged

Random fact to finish: aged 63

Artist: Sientje Mesdag-van Houten

stopping there to draw intensively for a few days en route to Rome

This late work

the Kyoto-based artist came from a samurai family and studied with at least two different teachers—one a Tosa-school painter

Musée No:325.129 Size:A2 - 594mm x 420mm Random fact to finish: agedVintage Fruit Illustration Artist: Pierre Joseph Redout Date: 1801 1819 Pierre Joseph Redout, (1759 1840), was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison, many of which were published as large, color stipple engravings. He was nicknamed "the Raphael of flowers" and has been called the greatest botanical illustrator of all time.