Margaretha Haverman (bapt. 28 October 1693 – after 1739) was an 18th-century flower painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

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She was born in

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as the daughter of Daniël Haverman, a captain in the Danish army who settled in Amsterdam to become director of a boys' school there.Margaretha Haverman
on

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In the 20 page biography of

Jan van Huysum Jan van Huysum (or Jan van Huijsum) (15 April 1682 – 8 February 1749) is the most notable member of the Van Huysum family of artists working in Dutch Golden Age of the 17th and 18th centuries; “by common consent, Jan van Huysum has been held ...

written by

Jan van Gool Johan, or Jan van Gool (1685–1763), was a Dutch painter and writer from The Hague, now remembered mainly as a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age. Life Jan van Gool was a pupil of Simon van der Does and Mattheus Terwesten.

, the only woman he mentioned is Haverman who Van Gool claimed had been allowed to become Van Huysum's only pupil.Biography of Johannes van Huysum in Johan van Gool's "De nieuwe Schouburg der Nederlantsche Kunstschilders en Schilderessen" Van Huysum later believed she became his pupil under false pretenses and that he had been "sweet-talked" into taking her on by her father the schoolmaster. Haverman became an embarrassment to Van Huysum when she was admitted to the prestigious

Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (; en, "Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture") was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abol ...

in 1722, because she began to sell her works and he was very defensive of his own public image and he was afraid her clever copies would bring him discredit. This story indicates that Van Huysum was willing to let his female relatives assist him but avoided the help of male pupils for fear of revealing his technique. Though her work is regularly mentioned in estate inventories, today only two signed flower paintings by her are known, '' A Vase of Flowers (1716)'' is in the

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and the other in the

Statens Museum for Kunst The National Gallery of Denmark ( da, Statens Museum for Kunst, also known as "SMK", literally State Museum for Art) is the Danish national gallery, located in the centre of Copenhagen. The museum collects, registers, maintains, researches and han ...

.Margaretha Haverman
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Margaretha Haverman married 25 July 1721 the architect Jacques de Mondoteguy (d. 1739) in Amsterdam, with whom she moved to Paris, where she was accepted as a member in the Academie the next year. In 1723 she was thrown out again after claims that her acceptance work was in fact the work of her former master Van Huysum.

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Biography
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Work by Haverman
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Honoring a Legacy: The Conservation of Margareta Haverman's ''A Vase of Flowers''. Gerrit Albertson, Annette de la Renta Fellow, Department of Paintings Conservation.
Work by Haverman
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1693 births 1739 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch women artists Painters from Amsterdam Dutch expatriates in France Dutch women painters Flower artists Painters from Paris {{Netherlands-painter-stub