Emil Doerstling (1859-x)
"Flowers' Revenge" comes from an old legend called "The Revenge of the Roses." According to this tale, a beautiful but cruel woman had a passion for roses. Her exactions devasted the gardens of the land, until the poor roses, in their despair, appealed to their mistress Venus for protection, and she granted them the power to destroy life as well as to delight the senses. Once more only did the cruel beauty ravage the garden beds. Next morning she was found dead on her sumptuous couch, and the flowers which had triumphed over her bloomed around her in exultation. The painter, Emil Doerstling, is a Berlin man, and a graduate of the Royal Academy of that city.

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