Dorothea Maria Gsell

Dorothea Maria Graff (1678–1743) was an 18th-century painter from Germany, who lived and worked in Amsterdam, and Saint Petersburg. After her mother's death, she published the third volume of Maria Sibylla's work on the European caterpillar (Der Rupsen). She then moved to St Petersburg with her husband who was adviser to Tsar Peter on the acquistion of Dutch art for the Peterhof Palace. Appointed at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg to paint animals, plants, art works and antiquities in the Kunstkamera, by the Tsar. She also trained young draftsmen, in connection with the Kunstkamera collection. Died in St Petersburg. - British Museum