Margaretha Cornelia Boellaard (9 February 1795,

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– 5 November 1872, Utrecht) was a Dutch painter,

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and art collector.

Biography

She came from a wealthy noble family. Her father, Johan Diderick, was the Heer (Baron or Lord) of Zuilichem. Her mother, Margaretha, died six days after she was born and her father never remarried, so she remained an only child.Brief biography
@ Huygens. She received private art lessons from the portrait painters and his son, also named as well as the landscape painter, . In 1825, she was also able to audit classes at the

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in Amsterdam.Profile
@ the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie. Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans, a noted art collector, allowed her to copy works from his collection. Her works were exhibited in several cities. From 1826 to 1843, she was a regular participant in Amsterdam's Exhibition of Living Masters. In 1834, she received an award from the

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for her painting ''Meisje met bloemen'' (Girl with Flowers). In 1858, she was the first woman to become an honorary member of the "Genootschap Kunstliefde", an artists' society in Utrecht. In her later years her eyesight declined. By 1864, she was unable to paint and devoted herself entirely to art collecting. She also used her collection to present lectures and discussions at

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, the

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and in

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. She never married so, after her death, she willed most of her belongings to the Kunstliefde, including her home on the

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, which became a museum and exhibition hall in 1905. The rental fees for the hall were put into a fund for the support of financially distressed artists over the age of fifty. In 1984, part of this fund was used to establish the "Boellaardprijs".

References

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