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Elisa Marie Thornam

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Elisa Marie Thornam (12 March 1857 – 22 April 1901) was a Danish landscape painter and botanical illustrator who contributed to the Flora Danica and Botanisk Tidsskrift.

Life and career

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landscape painting of unpaved road through pine forest
"Scene near Bagsværd Lake, Denmark" - oil on canvas by Elisa Marie Thornam, 1889.

Thornam was born in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. She died on 22 April 1901 in Copenhagen. Her father was the painter and botanical illustrator Johan Christian Thornam (1822–1908),[1][better source needed] who taught botanical illustration and served as artist on the Galathea Expedition of 1845. A landscape painter, Thornam was a student of painters Hans Fischer and Andreas Fritz.[2] She colored her father's contributions to the Flora Danica[2] botanical compendium, published 1761-1883. Thornam and her father also collaborated on illustrations for the 1866 Botanisk Tidsskrift,[3][4][5][6] a Danish botanical journal.

Botanical illustrations

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References

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  1. ^ "Elise Marie "Marie" Thornam". Geni. 12 March 1857. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  2. ^ a b Johansen, P.; Müller, S. (1927). "Thornam". In Blangstrup, Christian (ed.). Salmonsens Konversations Leksikon (in Danish). Vol. XXIII: T–Tysk frisindede Parti (2nd ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz. p. 388.
  3. ^ Botanisk tidsskrift, p. Tab. V (illustration).
  4. ^ Botanisk tidsskrift, p. Tab. II (illustration).
  5. ^ Botanisk tidsskrift. p. Tab. III (illustration).
  6. ^ Botanisk tidsskrift. p. Tab. IV (illustration).

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