March 2, 1909

The Dutch painter Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (May 31 1821 to March 2, 1909) was a famous illustrator of animals, like, bugs. According to a sales site:

Her mastery at depicting the feline race was described by Marion H. Spielman, who was asked to write an English essay about the artist for the Magazine of Art in 1890, and which he published in a book a year later. He wrote that:
She has produced a cat-world as impressive as the cattle-world of Potter (Paulus Potter-Dutch, 1625-1654), and as beautiful and touching as the stag and dog worlds of Landseer (Sir Edwin Henry Landseer-British, 1802-1873); and she has peopled it with a race remarkable above all for beauty and grace, for playfulness and cunning, and for intelligence afar beyond what most people have any knowledge of. (Henriette Ronner: The Painter of Cat Life and Cat Character, London: Cassell, 1891, pp. 1, 2