The daughter and pupil of Neo-Classicist painter Josephus August Knip, Henriette Ronner-Knip began her career as a landscape and still life painter. Her first exhibition was held in Germany at the age of fifteen. By 1852, her work was popular in the salons of Paris and England.

Knip and her husband moved from her native Amsterdam, Holland, to Brussels, Belgium, in 1859. There she concentrated on animal scenes, using dogs and cats as her inexpensive models - setting her picture mainly in the lush Belle Epoch interiors popular at the time. Knip's animal paintings were celebrated for their dividualistic, almost human characteristics. By 1870, she was painting cats and kittens exclusively. Knip became a member of the Royal Society and officer of the Order of Leopold in 1877. An album of her work was published in concurrence with the 1891 Berlin World's Fair.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Gemeentemuseum in the The Hague, and many museums in England exhibit her works.

This collection contains 96 backgrounds - 19 left border backgrounds, 42 seamless tiles and 35 tiles muted. The framing to each is uniquely designed especially for that picture, reflecting the character of the picture. They have been made for emails but will work just as well on web pages.

Free downloads Left click to download high quality tile - please do not right click as these are quality adjusted thumbnails made to fit the boxes. These samples are in my Knip Collection. Add these 96 beautiful backgrounds to your collection for: US$ 7.00 sent by email. Graphics will be sent by email upon receipt of instructions from PayPal normally within 24-48 hours. Please note, the Search Party logo does not appear on the collection. These graphics are optomised and quality reduced to save on bandwidth usage. A samples sheet showing more pictures from this collection is available by email. Don't forget you can change the size and colour of the text in your emails to match these background - You can check out how to do this in my Using backgrounds in Outlook Express tut. - Its very easy to do! I would reccomend that you do take the time to learn to do so. It will give your emails that really special feel. A copy of the tutorial is also in the Knip Cats In Art Collection Zip file. Some will print out really nicely as writing paper too, just remember to set your printer to print 'best quality' and use good quality paper to print them on. The seamless tiles will make your own exclusive wrapping paper for those special little gifts if you experiment with your printer settings.

More Cat backgrounds are available in the Graphics Salesroom.

Grahics are optomised and supplied for personal use only.

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