Danish painter. She was born in Poland from German parents as Anna Maria Elisabeth Lisinska Baumann, married to the sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau. Her father Philip Adolph Baumann (1776-1863) was a mapmaker, At the age of nineteen, she began her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and she is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. She began exhibiting there and in 1844 attracted public attention for the first time. After she moved to Rome, her paintings were primarily of local life. It was here that she met her future husband, whom she married in 1846. The couple moved to Copenhagen in 1849 where her husband became a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Elisabeth was not well received by the Danish art world. She painted portraits of important Danes and did several of Queen Louise of Denmark (1817-1898) and her daughters who kept up a correspondence with her. In 1858 she was awarded the Academy's Jubilee Medal and became a member in 1861. She had great success abroad, however, and had a special following in France where she was twice represented at the World Fair in Paris, first in 1867 and again in 1878. In 1852 she exhibited some of her paintings in London, and Queen Victoria requested a private presentation in Buckingham Palace. Among the portraits presented to the Queen was her painting of Hans Christian Andersen, completed in 1850. In 1869-1870 she traveled extensively in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle-East, and again in 1874-1875 accompanied by her son Harald. She was able to gain access to the harems of the Ottoman Empire and as a result was able to paint scenes of harem life from personal observation. Her work from this period is sometimes decorative and frequently sentimental but with a fine sense of colour and lighting. The sensualism in some of these paintings was still considered taboo in some parts of Europe and the Danish art world tried to keep these works out of sight. The Jerichaus had nine children, two of whom died in infancy. Of the rest, several became accomplished painters including Harald Jerichau (1851-1878), and Holger Hvitfeldt Jerichau (1861-1900). She has several other descendants who are artists and her grandson Jens Adolf Emil Jerichau (1891-1916) was one of Denmark's most talented modernist painters. //