Elisabeth Alida Haanen (1809 in

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– 1845 in

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), was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

According to the RKD she was the daughter of Casparis Haanen, and the sister of

Adriana Johanna Haanen Adriana Johanna Haanen (; 14 June 1814 – 8 October 1895) was a Dutch people, Dutch painter. Biography Adriana Johanna Haanen was born in Oosterhout in 1814. She was the youngest child of the papercutter Casparis Haanen and the sister of the p ...

, George Gilles Haanen and

Remigius Adrianus Haanen Remigius Adrianus Haanen or ''Remigius (Remy) van Haanen'', (January 5, 1812, Oosterhout - August 13, 1894, Bad Aussee) was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. He was the son of the papercutter Casparis Haanen and was the brother ...

.Elisabeth Alida Haanen
in the

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She married the artist Petrus Kiers and became the aunt of

Cecil van Haanen __NOTOC__ Cecil van Haanen (3 November 1844 – 24 September 1914) was a Vienna-born Dutch portrait and genre painter, whose significant work was centred at Venice. Van Haanen was the son to landscape painter Remigius Adrianus Haanen (1812� ...

. She was the mother of George Lourens Kiers and Catharina Isabella Kiers, both of whom also became artists. From 1838 she was an honorary member of the Royal academy of art in Amsterdam ('' Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten''). She is known for her genre paintings, but was also a papercut artist who cut more than a hundred portraits of artists around 1837.

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Elisabeth Alida Haanen
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