Anna Dorothea Therbusch

Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721–1782) was a leading Rococo portrait painter born Anna Dorothea Lisiewski in Berlin, daughter of portraitist Georg Lisiewski. She and her sister were celebrated as child prodigies, but after marrying an innkeeper in 1742 she abandoned painting for nearly twenty years, returning to her easel around 1760.

She worked for the Duke of Württemberg in Stuttgart, was elected to the Paris Académie Royale in 1767 with Denis Diderot's patronage, and returned to Berlin in 1768 as Frederick the Great's court portraitist, decorating Sanssouci and painting the Prussian royal family. She died there in 1782.