Anna Susanna Fries
Born in 1827.
Died in 1901.
Anna Susanna Fries was an artist whose work encompassed landscape painting, historical scenes and portraits. Between 1871 and 1875, she directed an art school for women in Florence, thereby contributing to women’s artistic education in her time. Although further details about her work are limited, her commitment to teaching and her artistic practice attest to a significant participation in the nineteenth-century art world.