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Therese Schwartze

Portrait of Mrs A. G. M. van Ogtrop-Hanlo and her five children Print by Therese Schwartze

Portrait of Mrs A. G. M. van Ogtrop-Hanlo and her five children

Three girls from the Amsterdam Orphanage Print by Therese Schwartze

Three girls from the Amsterdam Orphanage

Portrait of Frederik Daniel Otto Obreen , General director of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Print by Therese Schwartze

Portrait of Frederik Daniel Otto Obreen , General director of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Young Italian woman with the dog Puck Print by Therese Schwartze

Young Italian woman with the dog Puck

Portrait of Lizzy Ansingh Print by Therese Schwartze

Portrait of Lizzy Ansingh

Portrait of Pierre Joseph Hubert Cuypers Print by Therese Schwartze

Portrait of Pierre Joseph Hubert Cuypers

 

Thérèse Schwartze (20 December 1851 – 23 December 1918) was a Dutch portrait painter.

Life

Thérèse Schwartze at 16 by her father

Thérèse Schwartze was born on 20 December 1851 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She was the daughter of the painter Johan Georg Schwartze, who grew up in Philadelphia and trained in Düsseldorf.

Schwartze received her first training from her father, before studying for a year at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten. She then travelled to Munich and studied under Gabriel Max and Franz von Lenbach. In 1879 she went to Paris to continue her studies under Jean-Jacques Henner. When she returned to Amsterdam she became a member of Arti et Amicitiae. Schwartze exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[1]
Death
Grave of Thérèse by Georgine, today a rijksmonument

On 22 July 1918 her husband, Anton van Duyl, died. As Schwartze was in bad health at that time (and tried to hide this), the death of her husband was a blow that she could not overcome easily. She died in Amsterdam on 23 December 1918 from a sudden illness.

Schwartze was buried at Zorgvlied cemetery in Amsterdam. Later she was reburied at the Nieuwe Ooster cemetery in Amsterdam, where her sister created a memorial to her, modelled after her death mask, which is now considered a rijksmonument.
Works
Her home
Main article: List of works by Thérèse Schwartze

Her portraits, mostly of Amsterdam's elite, are remarkable for excellent character drawing, breadth and vigour of handling and rich quality of pigment.[2] She signed her works "Th. Schwartze" and was married late in life in 1906 to Anton van Duyl, whereupon she signed works with "Th. v Duyl.Schwartze".

She was one of the few women painters who had been honoured by an invitation to contribute their portraits to the hall of painters at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Some of her best pictures, notably a portrait of Piet J Joubert, and Three Inmates of the Orphanage at Amsterdam, are at the Rijksmuseum, and one entitled Five Amsterdam Orphans at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam.[2]

Her niece Lizzy Ansingh, who she painted a few times, also became a painter. Her sister Georgine Schwartze became a sculptor. She lived with her extended family at Prinsengracht 1901 in Amsterdam and painted her housemates in 1915:

Works of Thérèse Schwartze by museum

Jewish antique dealer, Joods Historisch Museum
Portrait of Mozes de Vries van Buren, Joods Historisch Museum
Portrait of Abraham Carel Wertheim, Joods Historisch Museum
Portrait of P. M. Wertheim-Wertheim, Joods Historisch Museum
Portrait of Dr. J.L. Dusseau (1870), Rijksmuseum
Young Italian woman with the dog Puck (1879), Rijksmuseum
Portrait of Peter Marius Tutein Nolthenius (1879/1880), Rijksmuseum
Portrait of Frederik Daniël Otto Obreen (1883), Rijksmuseum
Three Inmates of the Orphanage at Amsterdam (1885), Rijksmuseum
Portrait of Dr. P.J.H. Cuypers (1885), Rijksmuseum
Portrait of Alida Elisabeth Grevers (1889), Rijksmuseum
Portrait of Piet Joubert (1890), Rijksmuseum
Portrait of Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël (1899), Rijksmuseum
Portrait of Amelia Eliza van Leeuwen (1900), Rijksmuseum
Portrait of Lizzie Ansingh (1902), Rijksmuseum
Portrait of Maria Catharina Josephine Jordan (1902), Rijksmuseum
Portrait of C.M van der Goot-Mabé Grevingh (1883), Teylers Museum
Several drawings, Leiden University
Portrait of Prof Adriaan Heynsius (1883), Leiden University
Portrait of Prof Gustaaf Schlegel (c.1900), Leiden University
Portrait of Prof A.P.N. Franchimont (1899), Leiden University
Portrait of Prof. M.J. de Goeje (c.1905), Leiden University
Portrait of Prof Blok (1914), Leiden University

Gallery

Three Inmates of the Orphanage at Amsterdam (1885)

Queen Wilhelmina (1898)

Prof. Franchimont (1899)

Portrait of Lizzy (1902)

Portrait of Geradine Marguerite van Hardenbroek (1903)

The Inmates of my House (1915)

Portrait of a Girl (1918)

Portrait of Johanna Eugenia Theadora Van Hoorn Schouwe (1918)

References

Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 31 July 2018.

Chisholm 1911.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schwartze, Teresa". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Art work listings are translated from the Dutch Wikipedia.

Sources

Hollema, Cora and Kouwenhoven, Pieternel, Thérèse Schwartze, Painting for a Living, Amsterdam 2015, ISBN 978-90-824064-0-5, www.thereseschwartze.com
C. Hollema, Thérèse Schwartze, haar klant was koning, Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1e druk 1998, ISBN 978-90-5730-713-3, English edition in preparation.

External links
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1 painting by or after Thérèse Schwartze at the Art UK site

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