Thérèse Schwartze ✽ (Dutch painter, 1851 -1918)

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THE LIFE AND WORK OF THÉRÈSE SCHWARTZE, 1851 – 1918
The life of Thérèse

Born on 20 December 1851 in Amsterdam, Thérèse is the daughter of Johann Georg Schwartze, painter, and Elise Hermann. Both parents had German ancestors. Georg was born in the Netherlands and grew up in America and Elise in Germany.

Thérèse is the third daughter in a family of five. She is trained as a painter by her father and, at the age of 15, already receives assignments to paint wealthy Amsterdam families. When her father dies in 1874, Thérèse takes over the atelier and becomes the family’s breadwinner. By then they are living at Prinsengracht 1091 in Amsterdam.

The work of Thérèse Schwartze

Thérèse goes on a study trip to Munich where she is recommended by Franz von Lenbach to use photographs to help her paint portraits. After Munich, Thérèse left for Paris where she met the painters Leon Bonnat and Jean Jaques Henner. She admires them for their realistic paintings. In 1889 Thérèse receives a golden medal for her submitted self-portrait at the International Exhibition in Paris. It is a self-portrait in oil showing Thérèse at work.

Thérèse becomes famous and even creates portraits of the royal family, which brings her even more assignments. In 1896, Thérèse was the first woman to be knighted in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.

Thérèse’s success comes from her pastel crayon paintings, which she puts on the canvas with a quick, clear stroke. Most of her work (more than 1000) consists of portraits, but Thérèse also painted genre pieces, scenes from real life. Thérèse exhibited not only in Europe but also in America.

After the death of his wife, Thérèse Schwartze married her good friend Anton van Duyl on 30 August 1906. Anton was chief editor of the newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad. Not long after his death in July 1918, Thérèse dies of grief and weak health on 23 December 1918. The grave monument was designed by her sister Georgine and shows Thérèse lying in bed. Thérèse was buried on Zorgvliet and was later transferred to the Nieuwe Ooster Cemetery in Amsterdam.
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