The daughter and pupil of Neo-Classicist painter Josephus August Knip, Henriette Ronner-Knip began her career as a landscape and still life painter. Her first exhibition was held in Germany at the age of fifteen. By 1852, her work was popular in the salons of Paris and England.

Knip and her husband moved from her native Amsterdam, Holland, to Brussels, Belgium, in 1859. There she concentrated on animal scenes, using dogs and cats as her inexpensive models - setting her picture mainly in the lush Belle Epoch interiors popular at the time. Knip's animal paintings were celebrated for their dividualistic, almost human characteristics. By 1870, she was painting cats and kittens exclusively. Knip became a member of the Royal Society and officer of the Order of Leopold in 1877. An album of her work was published in concurrence with the 1891 Berlin World's Fair.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Gemeentemuseum in the The Hague, and many museums in England exhibit her works.

This collection contains 96 backgrounds - 19 left border backgrounds, 42 seamless tiles and 35 tiles muted. The framing to each is uniquely designed especially for that picture, reflecting the character of the picture. They have been made for emails but will work just as well on web pages.