Anna Folkema
Anna Folkema (22 May 1695 – 8 October 1768), was an 18th-century engraver from the Dutch Republic.
Anna Folkema
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- Name
- Anna Folkema
- Born
- 22 May 1695
- Birthplace
- Dokkum, Netherlands
- Died
- 18 October 1768
- Place of death
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Field
- Engraving
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic.
- Occupation
- graphic artist, painter and copper engraver.
- Languages
- Dutch.
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Anna Folkema (22 May 1695 – 8 October 1768), was an 18th-century engraver from the Dutch Republic.
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Anna Folkema (1695–1768) was a copper engraver, graphic artist and painter, of Dutch nationality. The copper engraver was born in Dokkum and died in Amsterdam.
Anna Folkema worked in Amsterdam. Activity centred on engraving process.
Languages used include Dutch. Works are held at Print Collection.
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Key facts
• Name — Anna Folkema • Born — 22 May 1695 • Birthplace — Dokkum, Netherlands • Died — 18 October 1768 • Place of death — Amsterdam, Netherlands • Field — Engraving • Illustration — Two Lutheran churches and two Synagogues of Amsterdam
Biography
Biography
Folkema was born in Dokkum as the daughter of Johann Jakob Folkema, a goldsmith. She was the sister of Jacob Folkema. Their father moved the family to Amsterdam, where they ran a family business of making prints. She died in Amsterdam.
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• Two children drinking out of a bowl. Folkema Anna 1748. Line. • Two children and a cat lying on a grassy bank. Folkema Anna 1748. Line.
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- 1.Anna Folkema in the RKD
- 2.Weitenkamf Frank, Grolier Club. Catalogue of a collection of engravings, etchings and lithographs by women : exhibited at the Grolier Club, 29 East Thirty-Second Street, April 12 to 27, 1901., The De Vinne Press, New York, 1901, pg35.
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