Flowering Plants

Hermania Sigvardine Neergaard was a Danish flower and still-life painter. In her times, equal opportunities to become artists did not exist for women and men. Women could not be admitted to the art academy but had to (and only before marriage) receive privately paid tuition from teachers or experts in private schools that grew around the art academy. Women also couldn't depict nudity, which was the basis of the student curriculum then. Many of the women artists had no choice but to focus on still lifes. 

Hermania Neergaard also worked on portrait paintings, but she became a highly recognized painter of flowers when the Danish royal family started to buy her works en masse. Fun fact: this painting, which belongs to the Statens Museum for Kunst's collection, was barely dry when it was acquired for the museum collection in 1846. ⁠

P.S. Who's a better expert in still lifes than the Dutch? Here are women artists of Dutch Golden Age. <3

P.P.S. If you would like to learn more about women artists across centuries, please check our Women Artists 50 Postcard Set; you'll love it!