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Alice Ronner

1857–1957 · Belgian painter of fruit and flower still lifes

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Emma Alice Henriette Ronner (September 9, 1857 – July 4, 1957) was a Belgian painter who specialized in still-life paintings of fruits and flowers. Born in Brussels, she grew up in an artistic household as the daughter and pupil of Henriette Ronner-Knip, a Dutch-born painter famous in her day for scenes with dogs and cats. She was one of six children, and two of her siblings, her older brother Alfred Ronner and younger sister Emma Ronner, also became notable painters.

Ronner showed her work regularly in women's art exhibitions, often alongside her mother. She was a member of the Cercle des Femmes Peintres, an association founded by the painter Berthe Art to give women artists an organized venue for displaying their work. Her paintings also appeared in international shows, including the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and the Vienna Secession in 1910.

In 1911 she helped establish the Galerie Lyceum in Brussels with friends from the by-then defunct Circle of Women Painters: her sister Emma, Anna Boch, Louise Danse, Marie Danse, Juliette Wytsman and Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe. Ronner died in Ixelles, Belgium, in 1957.