Thérèse Schwartze (20 December 1851 – 23 December 1918) was a Dutch portrait painter.
Life
Thérèse Schwartze at 16 by her father
Thérèse Schwartze was born on 20 December 1851 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She was the daughter of the painter Johan Georg Schwartze, who grew up in Philadelphia and trained in Düsseldorf.
On 22 July 1918 her husband, Anton van Duyl, died. As Schwartze was in bad health at that time (and tried to hide this), the death of her husband was a blow that she could not overcome easily. She died in Amsterdam on 23 December 1918 from a sudden illness.
Schwartze was buried at Zorgvlied cemetery in Amsterdam. Later she was reburied at the Nieuwe Ooster cemetery in Amsterdam, where her sister created a memorial to her, modelled after her death mask, which is now a rijksmonument.
Works
Her home
Her portraits, mostly of Amsterdam's elite, are remarkable for excellent character drawing, breadth and vigour of handling and rich quality of pigment.[1] She signed her works "Th. Schwartze" and was married late in life in 1906 to Anton van Duyl, whereupon she signed works with "Th. v Duyl.Schwartze".
Her niece Lizzy Ansingh, who she painted a few times, also became a painter. Her sister Georgine Schwartze became a sculptor. She lived with her extended family at Prinsengracht 1901 in Amsterdam and painted her housemates in 1915:
Portrait of Geradine Marguerite van Hardenbroek (1903)
The Inmates of my House (1915)
Portrait of a Girl (1918)
Portrait of Johanna Eugenia Theadora Van Hoorn Schouwe (1918)
References
^ a b cChisholm 1911.
^Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 31 July 2018.
Attribution:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schwartze, Teresa". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 388–389.
Art work listings are translated from the Dutch Wikipedia.
Sources
Hollema, Cora and Kouwenhoven, Pieternel, Thérèse Schwartze, Painting for a Living, 2nd edn Amsterdam 2021, ISBN 978-90-824064-1-2, www.thereseschwartze.com
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