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Sara Troost, or Sara Ploos van Amstel (1732–1803) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
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1732 births 1803 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters Painters from Amsterdam Dutch women painters 18th-century Dutch women artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub
Sara Troost, or Sara Ploos van Amstel (1732–1803) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Biography
Troost was born and died inAmsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
. According to the RKD, she was the daughter of the painter Cornelis Troost
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Cornelis Troost (8 October 1696 – 7 March 1750) was an 18th-century actor and painter from Amsterdam.
Troost was trained as an actor and married the actress Susanna Maria van der Duyn, but became a pupil of Arnold Boonen and g ...
and the teacher of her cousin Christina Chalon
Christina Chalon (25 May 1748 – 18 December 1808) was a Dutch artist.
Chalon was born in Amsterdam, and studied painting under Sara Troost and Ploos van Amstel. She, however, devoted herself more particularly to etching, in which she acquired ...
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RKD
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 ...
She married the printer Jacob Ploos van Amstel, and her sister Elisabeth married his brother, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726, in Weesp – 1798, in Amsterdam), was an eighteenth-century Dutch painter and art collector.
Biography
According to the RKD, he was a pupil of Norbert van Bloemen and Jacobus Buys, and later became a membe ...
. Like him, she is known for watercolor copies of 17th century artists.
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1732 births 1803 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters Painters from Amsterdam Dutch women painters 18th-century Dutch women artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub