Ercole Lelli Ercole Lelli Ercole Lelli (14 September 1702 – 7 March 1766) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active mainly in Northern Italy, including his native city of Bologna, as well as Padua and Piacenza. Lelli was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Pietro Zanotti, but he also gravitated towards sculptural work. He excelled in the study of the anatomy of the human body as well as painting. Starting in 1742 he helped prepare artistic anatomical wax displays at the University of Bologna. The wax modeler and anatomist Giovanni Manzolini worked as his assistant from 1743. Manzolini resigned in late
Anna Elisabeth Hartwick Anna Elisabeth Hartwick Anna Elisabeth Hartwick (1796-1882) was a Swedish lace industrialist. She lived in Vadstena, which had a long history of professional lace making. In the 18th-century, individual makers of bobbin lace sold their works to peddlers, but in the 19th-century, this small scale industry developed in to a lager industry dominated by Anna Elisabeth Hartwick and her main rival Catharina Lidman (1792-1856). Hartwick bought up lace from many of the lace makers of Vadstena and had them sold through her shop and through sails persons employed by her throughout the nation. Through her employee Catharina Andersdotter, she sold