Anna Katharina Block [SEP] place of birth
Anna Katharina Block
Anna Katharina Block (1642, Nuremberg – 1719, Regensburg), was a German Baroque flower painter.
Biography.
According to Houbraken she was the daughter of the flower painter Johann Thomas Fischer who taught her to paint. She was good at painting flowers in water colors and in oils, and taught the Duchess Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the wife of the Duke August von Sachsen, and their daughters in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt in the 1660s. She married the painter Benjamin Blok
Maria Anna Katharina Rutowska
Maria Anna Katharina Rutowska (1706–1746) was a Polish noblewoman.
She was the illegitimate daughter of Polish king Augustus II the Strong and his mistress, the Turk "Fatima or Fatime", later renamed Maria Anna of Spiegel.
Life.
Katharina was the second child of the liaison between Augustus II and Fatima; her older brother, Frederick Augustus, was born four years before.
Shortly after the birth of Frederick Augustus, the King married Maria Anna with his chamberman Johann Georg of