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Henriëtte Geertruida Knip (19 July 1783 – 29 May 1842) was a flower painter from the
Henriëtte Knip
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Henriëtte Knip
in 1001 Vrouwen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis * 1783 births 1842 deaths People from Tilburg 18th-century Dutch painters 19th-century Dutch painters Flower artists Dutch women painters 19th-century Dutch women artists 18th-century Dutch women artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub
Henriëtte Geertruida Knip (19 July 1783 – 29 May 1842) was a flower painter from the Northern Netherlands
The United Provinces of the Netherlands, also known as the (Seven) United Provinces, officially as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: ''Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden''), and commonly referred to in historiography ...
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Knip was born in Tilburg
Tilburg () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, in the southern province of North Brabant. With a population of 222,601 (1 July 2021), it is the second-largest city or municipality in North Brabant after Eindhoven and the seventh-larg ...
as the daughter of the painter Nicolaas Frederik Knip. After her father went blind, she followed lessons from her older brother, Joseph August Knip. In 1802, she followed him to Paris and took lessons from the flower painter Gerard van Spaendonck
Gerard van Spaendonck (22 March 1746 – 11 May 1822) was a Dutch painter.
Life
Gerard was born in Tilburg, an older brother of Cornelis van Spaendonck (1756–1840), who was also an accomplished artist. In the 1760s he studied with decorative ...
. She became a successful painter and spent summers in Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
painting the flowers of the various flower companies, and she spent winters in Amsterdam teaching ladies how to paint.
In 1824 she went back again to Paris to take lessons from the artist Jan Frans van Dael
Jan Frans van Dael or Jean-François van Dael (27 May 1764 – 20 March 1840) was a Flemish painter and lithography, lithographer specializing in still lifes of flowers and fruit. He had a successful career in Paris where his patrons include ...
. When her brother began to go blind, she was able to support his family as well as herself. She never married and died in Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
. Her work is sometimes confused with that of her niece Henriëtte Ronner-Knip
Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (31 May 1821 – 2 March 1909) was a Dutch-Belgian artist in the Romantic style who is best known for her animal paintings; especially cats.
Biography
She was born in Amsterdam into a family of artists and received he ...
, whose works generally contain animals.
References
External links
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The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...
Henriëtte Knip
in 1001 Vrouwen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis * 1783 births 1842 deaths People from Tilburg 18th-century Dutch painters 19th-century Dutch painters Flower artists Dutch women painters 19th-century Dutch women artists 18th-century Dutch women artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub