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Henriette Ronner-Knip was born in Amsterdam in 1821 and was trained there by her father, the painter, Josephus Augustus Knip.
In 1850 she married Feico Ronner and settled with him in Belgium in the same year. It was after this move to Brussels that she concentrated her career on painting small format panels of cats and dogs. By 1860 she was renoun througout Belgium attracting patrons including the Queen of Belgium and her sister-in-law the Countess of Flanders.
Ronner soon developed her style and began to specialise in longhaired cats, her work became highly sought after and was purchased by buyers all over the world. In her lifetime she received not only many silver and gold medals for exhibited works but also several official merits including the order of Orange-Nassan in 1901 and a Knighthood of the Order of Leopold in 1877.
It was only after her marriage in 1850 that Henriette Knip signed her work Ronner.
Examples of her work can be seen in museums throughout Europe.
In 1850 she married Feico Ronner and settled with him in Belgium in the same year. It was after this move to Brussels that she concentrated her career on painting small format panels of cats and dogs. By 1860 she was renoun througout Belgium attracting patrons including the Queen of Belgium and her sister-in-law the Countess of Flanders.
Ronner soon developed her style and began to specialise in longhaired cats, her work became highly sought after and was purchased by buyers all over the world. In her lifetime she received not only many silver and gold medals for exhibited works but also several official merits including the order of Orange-Nassan in 1901 and a Knighthood of the Order of Leopold in 1877.
It was only after her marriage in 1850 that Henriette Knip signed her work Ronner.
Examples of her work can be seen in museums throughout Europe.