Lizzy Ansingh was a Dutch painter, best known for her works influenced by the Amsterdam Impressionist movement in the early 20th century. With a rich family history in art, Lizzy became interested in pursuing the field. Her aunt, Therese Schwartze, was a popular portrait painter and Lizzy lived with her for the first 16 years of her life. Lizzy’s religious family background had her creating paintings on biblical themes at first. At the age of 19, Lizzy attended an art academy and further honed her skills. She began painting portraits and dolls by the time she graduated from the academy. She eventually pursued a full-time career in painting and formed a group in Amsterdam called Amsterdamse Joffers, which was a group of like-minded upper-class Dutch female painters meeting and sharing their works and supporting each other. It became a major movement in Amsterdam and opened ways for many female painters to pursue art as a full-time profession. Apart from painting, Lizzy also wrote poems, short fiction and travel sketches. She also wrote two children’s books. As a portrait painter, Lizzy is highly revered in Dutch artistic circles as one of the pioneers of the Amsterdam Impressionist movement.