Early Life, Family and Training Born Emma Alice Henriette Ronner on September 9, 1857, in Brussels, Belgium, Alice Ronner grew up in a house where the lines of a sketch were a constant presence. She was the daughter of the painter Henriette Ronner-Knip, who served as both her mother and her teacher. The family environment was one of shared practice; her older brother, Alfred Ronner, and her younger sister, Emma Ronner, also grew into…