Background
She and her brothers were educated by her father in his trade, and active as the assistants in his studio as children.
She and her brothers were educated by her father in his trade, and active as the assistants in his studio as children.
She was an engraver, an illustrator, a woodcut-artist, and a miniaturist painter. Her family had emigrated to Uppsala in Sweden from Switzerland in the 1670s. She also accepted individual commissions early own to contribute to the support of the family.
She performed commissions of illustrations by method of drawing, Chalcography, Engraving, India ink and woodcut.
She made eleven woodcuts of German cities with texts for the paper Posttidningen in 1706. She was also frequently illustrated the work of Johan Peringskiöld.
Her motif include animals, landscapes, allegory, maps and religious motives. She signed herself Anna Maria Thelotten.
After the great fire of Uppsala in 1702, the family moved to Stockholm.
In 1710, Anna Maria Thelott became one of the many victims of the 1710–1713 plague of Sweden, and died in Stockholm at the age of twenty-seven. She left a sketch book composed in 1704-1709, which is preserved at the University of Uppsala.