Anna Rosina de Gasc

Training under Georg Lisiewski is recorded. Leopold Matthieu is recorded as having studied under Anna Rosina de Gasc. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Works named in the authority record are Peter III and Catherine II of Russia and Portrait of Michał Kazimierz Ogiński. Work by Anna Rosina de Gasc is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Landesmuseum Hannover, Hessen Kassel Heritage, Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin and Historical Museum in Sanok.

• Name — Anna Rosina de Gasc • Birth Name — Anna Rosina Lisiewska • Born — 10 July 1713 • Birthplace — Berlin • Died — 26 March 1783 • Place of death — Dresden • Field — Painting • Training — Georg Lisiewski (her father) Antoine Pesne

Anna Rosina was born into a family of painters of Polish noble origin in Berlin. Her mother was Maria Elizabeth Kahl from Pomerania. Her father, Georg Lisiewski (1674–1751), taught painting to Rosina and her siblings Anna Dorothea (1721–1782) and Christoph Friedrich (1725–1794). She later studied with the painter Antoine Pesne and learned his style of painting.

She mostly painted portraits. In 1757, she was appointed as court painter by Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst. During her ten-year stay at the court, she painted a gallery of forty ladies. Later, she moved to the ducal court in Brunswick, where she received a generous grant from Duchess Philippine Charlotte of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Her work is held in the permanent collections of several museums worldwide, including the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the National Museum, Warsaw.

In 1741, Anna Rosina married the Prussian court painter David Matthieu (1697–1756) and became the stepmother of Georg David Matthieu. After David's death, she married in 1760 to Louis de Gasc, who was a friend of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. She had two children with him. Anna Rosina de Gasc died in 1783 in Dresden.

• Illustration — Portrait of Maria Antonia Branconi • Illustration — Portrait of the Princess-Abbess Therese of Gandersheim • Illustration — Duchess Anna Amalia, Hereditary Prince Karl August and Prince Frederick Ferdinand Constantin of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach • Illustration — Johanna Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, later Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst • Illustration — Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth • Illustration — Portrait of a Lady, Anna Rosina Mathieu, 1754, University of Michigan Museum of Art • Illustration — Portrait of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing