Hendrina Sollewijn
BiographyAbout 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.