Sina Mesdag-van Houten
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Sina van Houten (Groningen, 23 December 1834 – The Hague
, 20 March 1909) was the wife of Hendrik Willem Mesdag
, the Dutch marine painter of the Hague School
, and a painter herself.
She was the eldest of seven children of Derk van Houten en Barbara Elisabeth Meihuizen. One of her brothers was later Minister Samuel van Houten
. Her father had a large sawmill on the Damsterdiep. She married Mesdag on April 23, 1856.
Sientje was a strong moral support to her husband, especially when she enthusiastically supported him in 1866, when he gave up his business profession solely for painting.
She began to paint in 1879, after she lost her only child, the 8-year-old Klaas. Gerkens Arnaud helped her drawing, while the painting was aided by her husband and her cousin Lawrence Alma-Tadema
.
In 1881 she took part in painting the Panorama Mesdag
. In 1884, one of her landscapes won a gold medal in Amsterdam she received a bronze medal in Paris for a heath landscape. In 1893 she made a big impression at an exhibition in Chicago. When Sientje Mesdag was 70 years, in 1905, she had an honorary exhibition in the halls of the Pulchri Studio
.
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
, 20 March 1909) was the wife of Hendrik Willem Mesdag
Hendrik Willem Mesdag
Hendrik Willem Mesdag was a Dutch marine painter.He was born in Groningen, the son of the banker Klaas Mesdag and his wife Johanna Wilhelmina van Giffen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father, an amateur painter, to study art...
, the Dutch marine painter of the Hague School
Hague School
The Hague School is the name given to a group of artists who lived and worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1890. Their work was heavily influenced by the realist painters of the French Barbizon school. The painters of the Hague school generally made use of relatively sombre colours, which is why...
, and a painter herself.
She was the eldest of seven children of Derk van Houten en Barbara Elisabeth Meihuizen. One of her brothers was later Minister Samuel van Houten
Samuel van Houten
Samuel van Houten was a Dutch liberal politician.Van Houten was born in Groningen. He studied law at the University of Groningen, obtaining a degree in 1859...
. Her father had a large sawmill on the Damsterdiep. She married Mesdag on April 23, 1856.
Sientje was a strong moral support to her husband, especially when she enthusiastically supported him in 1866, when he gave up his business profession solely for painting.
She began to paint in 1879, after she lost her only child, the 8-year-old Klaas. Gerkens Arnaud helped her drawing, while the painting was aided by her husband and her cousin Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA was a Dutch painter.Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there...
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In 1881 she took part in painting the Panorama Mesdag
Panorama Mesdag
Panorama Mesdag is a panorama by Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Housed in a purpose-built museum in The Hague, the panorama is a cylindrical painting more than 14 metres high and about 40 metres in diameter...
. In 1884, one of her landscapes won a gold medal in Amsterdam she received a bronze medal in Paris for a heath landscape. In 1893 she made a big impression at an exhibition in Chicago. When Sientje Mesdag was 70 years, in 1905, she had an honorary exhibition in the halls of the Pulchri Studio
Pulchri Studio
The Pulchri Studio is an important art institution and art studio based in The Hague, Netherlands. It began in 1847 at the home of painter Lambertus Hardenberg, established with the help of Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Jan Weissenbruch, Willem Roelofs, Jan Frederik van Deventer, Willem Antonie van...
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