Fruit still life  by Hendrina Sollewijn
Fruit still life  by Hendrina Sollewijn
Fruit still life  by Hendrina Sollewijn
Fruit still life  by Hendrina Sollewijn

Fruit still life 1783 - 1863

Hendrina Sollewijn

PaperPrint
40 ⨯ 29 cm
€ 1.250

Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

  • About the artwork
    Late summer fruit still life, watercolour by Hendrina Alida Sollewijn (1783-1863). Signed lower left "H:A: Sollewijn fecit". Size: 40 x 29.5 cm. Hendrina Sollewijn from the Dutch town of Haarlem was, according to a 19th century source, a “meritorious painter of Flowers and Fruits. Every day she has the best opportunity to practice in the surroundings of her hometown, by drawing Flowers and Plants”. A basket of fruit is laid out on a marble tabletop. We see a composition of a vine with leaves, two kinds of grapes, peaches with a fly, a cut open pumpkin, raspberries, bindweeds, a grass with ripe seeds, a dahlia, an anemone(?) and a butterfly. Trees with their leaves still on fill the background. It will be autumn soon. Price: Euro 1.250,- (incl. frame)
  • About the artist

    Hendrina Alida Sollewyn (October 28, 1783 – October 6, 1863 in Haarlem) was a Dutch painter and draughtsman. The family name is also mentioned as Sollewijn. She signed her work as H.A. Sollewyn.

    Hendrina Sollewyn was a daughter of manufacturer Pieter Sollewyn and Jansje la Roop. She was taught by painter Wybrand Hendriks. She painted and drew still lifes with flowers and fruits. Contemporaries Roeland van Eijnden and Adriaan van Willigen saw her work at exhibitions and described her in their History of Patriotic Painting as: "a deserving Painter of Flowers and Fruits. Herr Hendriks was her teacher, and every day she has the best opportunity to in the vicinity of her native city to practice nature, by drawing Flowers and Plants. (...) We also saw accurately drawn Objects, relative to Natural History, made by her".

    Sollewyn was a member of Kunst Zij Ons Doel, which was founded in 1821. She participated in various exhibitions, including a number of exhibitions of Living Masters in Haarlem, The Hague and Amsterdam. She lived the last ten years of her life in the Teylers Hofje on the Spaarne.

    Hendrina Sollewyn died in 1863, at the age of 79.

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