Christina Houbraken (1695–1760s) was an 18th-century artist from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

She was born in

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as the fourth of ten children of Arnold Houbraken.Christina Houbraken
in historici.nl In 1724 she married the painter

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, where the couple both lived. They had three daughters, of whom

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became a notable pastel artist. Her death date is not certain, but by 1773 her husband was living in Haarlem and there is no mention of her there or after that when he moved to Ede. Though, like her siblings

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and Antonina, she was an artist, none of her works are known to have survived.

References

1695 births 1760s deaths Dutch artists Artists from Amsterdam Dutch women artists {{Netherlands-artist-stub