Jacoba Maria van Nickelen (1690,

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– 1749,

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), was an 18th-century flower painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

Jacoba Maria van Nickelen - flowers in a vase set in a stone niche

van Nicklen was born into an old painting family of Haarlem; her grandfather Isaak van Nickelen painted church interiors, and her father

Jan van Nickelen Jan van Nickelen (1655, Haarlem – 1721, Kassel), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Houbraken he learned to paint from his father Isaak van Nickelen, who taught him perspective and who sent him to school to learn Latin ...

was a landscape painter. According to the RKD she was a fruit and flower still life painter, whose work shows the same elements as the work of Cornelia van der Mijn, the daughter of her teacher

Herman van der Mijn Herman van der Mijn, or Heroman van der Myn (1684 in Amsterdam – 1741 in London), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. According to Houbraken he introduced Jan van Nickelen to Jan Frans van Douven. ...

.Jacoba Maria van Nickelen
in the

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She was active at the court of

Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm II, Elector Palatine (''"Jan Wellem"'' in Low German, English: ''"John William"''; 19 April 1658 – 8 June 1716) of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Elector Palatine (1690–1716), Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg, Neuburg (1690–1716), ...

, where besides Cornelia, the women painters

Adriana Spilberg Adriana Spilberg (1652, Amsterdam – 1700, Düsseldorf), was a Dutch Golden Age painter active at the court of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine.(Germancourt painters who worked at the court of Johan Wilhelm, according to the Dusseldorf museum ...

and

Rachel Ruysch Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750) was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful care ...

also painted. She married the painter

Willem Troost Wilhelmus, or Willem Troost (1684, Amsterdam – 1752, Amsterdam), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography According to the RKD he was a pupil of Johannes Glauber during the year 1704-1709 and became court painte ...

and had eight children, though only two survived infancy.

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Jacoba Maria van Nickelen
on inghist {{DEFAULTSORT:Nickelen, Jacoba Maria van 1690s births 1749 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch women artists Artists from Haarlem Dutch still life painters Dutch women painters Flower artists