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in illustrating the anatomy of horses, encouraged this, while her mother was very negative about her becoming anything else than a wife. After her marriage to the official Johan Georg Bärens in 1761, she initially stopped all artistic activity. However, she resumed it encouraged by the painter
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Bärens painted still-life paintings, especially flowers, and was appointed royal flower-painter by dowager queen
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and was much admired, but the import-laws stopped any success she could have had there. In
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