Agnes Block
Dutch botanist and art collector (1629-1704) · Netherlands · Artists · Died at 74
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Something wrong?Agnes, or Agneta Block was a Dutch art collector and horticulturalist. She is most remembered as the compiler of an album of flower and insect paintings and as one of the first Europeans to successfully cultivate and fruit the pineapple outside of its native habitat.
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Agneta Block and her garden Flora Batava at Vijverhof, by Jan Weenix.
Agneta Blok as Flora Batava on a commemorative medal by Jan Boskam, 1700
Decorative garland with a portrait medaillon at the top of Agnes Block based on a coin stamped by J. Roscam, and with the Block family coat of arms at the bottom, surrounding the text "Nette Afbeelding / Van / Uytheemsche Plant / En / Bloem - Gewassen / Gequeckt door / Agneta Block / Op / Vyver-Hoffe", and at the bottom inscribed with "Pieter de Wolff Schript / Albert van Spiers. invt / J: Helena Herolt"
Vijverhof today; home to the Netherlands Institute for Ecology.About this person
Agnes, or Agneta Block was a Dutch art collector and horticulturalist. She is most remembered as the compiler of an album of flower and insect paintings and as one of the first Europeans to successfully cultivate and fruit the pineapple outside of its native habitat. She bore the nickname "Flora Batava," referencing the goddess of flowers and her Dutch identity. She is often lost to history because of the misspelling of her name. As well as differences in her first name, her last name was also spelled interchangeably as Block or Blok.
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