Women artists in all ages and countriesEllet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries)
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Women artists in all ages and countries
Ellet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries)
Women artists
Henrietta Wolters of Amsterdam gained no inconsiderable fame as a
miniature-painter. She was the pupil of her father, Theodore van Pee,
and was early accustomed to copy from Van der Velde and Vandyck. The
miniature portraits afterward painted by her were so perfect in finish
and execution, that the Czar Peter the Great, who seems to have become
acquainted with her during his journey incognito through Holland,
offered her a salary of six thousand florins as court-painter if she
would remove to his capital. She received as much as four hundred
florins for a single picture. She declined the imperial invitation, and
remained in her home, where, having lived with her husband, the painter
Wolters, since 1719, she died in 1741.
Passing over several of little note as artists, though among them are
numbered the Princess Anna of Orange and Cornelia de Ryk, we may pause
to mention Christina Chalon, who was born in Amsterdam in 1749, and
received her education with another artist, Sarah Troost. She painted
chiefly in gouache scenes from country life and family groups, and is
said to have learned the engraver’s art so young that she engraved a
picture when only nine years old. She died at Leyden in 1808.
Caroline Scheffer belongs to the close of this century. She was the
daughter and pupil of a painter, Ary Lamme, and married another, J.
B. Scheffer of Mannheim, with whom she lived long in Amsterdam and
Rotterdam. After her husband’s death, in 1809, she went to Paris with
her two sons, Ary and Henry, to give them the advantage of the best
instruction in painting. They did credit to the care of this good
and affectionate mother in the fame they acquired, and returned her
devotion with due tenderness and filial love. She died at Paris in 1839.
To these names should be added those of several women who devoted
themselves especially to landscape and flower painting--two branches in
which Holland could boast artists of skill and renown. Among these are
Elizabeth Ryberg, who lived in Rotterdam; Maria Jacoba Ommegank, and
Alberta ten Oever of Gröningen, some of whose landscapes, in the manner
of Ruysdael and Hobbema, were seen in the exhibition of 1818. Anna
Moritz, Susanna Maria Nymegen, and Cornelia van der Myin, are named by
Dr. Guhl.
Elizabeth Georgina van Hogenhuizen, a dilettante, born in Hague in
1776, became a disciple of Rachel Ruysch, and gave promise of attaining
to a kindred celebrity, had not her life been cut short in the bloom of
eighteen.
Among engravers on copper, who employed themselves with the pencil
as well as the graver, may be mentioned Maria Elizabeth Simons; she
engraved several pictures from Rubens and Van der Velde in the early
part of the century.
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