Barbara Elisabeth van Houten
Barbara Elisabeth van Houten (8 April 1863 – 27 May 1950) was a Dutch painter. • Illustration — Girl in a Chair
Also recorded as Barbara Elisabeth Van Houten · Barbara van Houten · B.E. van Houten
Barbara Elisabeth van Houten
Barbara Elisabeth van Houten · Groninger Museum · Public domain
- Name
- Barbara Elisabeth van Houten
- Born
- 8 April 1863
- Birthplace
- Groningen, Netherlands
- Died
- 27 May 1950
- Place of death
- The Hague, Netherlands
- Education
- École du Louvre, Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten
- Field
- Painting
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Occupation
- painter · etcher · exlibrist
- Teachers
- August Allebé · Adolf le Comte · Sina Mesdag-van Houten · Hendrik Willem Mesdag
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Training under August Allebé, Adolf le Comte and Sina Mesdag-van Houten is recorded. Adrienne van rees Dutilh is recorded as having studied under Barbara Elisabeth van Houten. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are The Hague, Paris and Amsterdam. Work by Barbara Elisabeth van Houten is recorded in the collections of Groninger Museum, CODA Museum, Royal Collections of the Netherlands, Museum Gouda and Kröller-Müller Museum.
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• Name — Barbara Elisabeth van Houten • Born — 8 April 1863 • Birthplace — Groningen, Netherlands • Died — 27 May 1950 • Place of death — The Hague, Netherlands • Education — École du Louvre, Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten • Field — Painting
Biography
Biography
Houten was born in Groningen and studied at the École du Louvre in Paris before finishing her studies under August Allebé at the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. She was the niece of Sientje Mesdag-van Houten who gave her advice on her studies. Besides oil paintings she is also known for etchings and was a member of the short-lived Dutch Etcher's Club (1885-1896). Houten exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Her painting Girl in a Chair was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World. Houten died in The Hague.
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- 1.Barbara Elisabeth van Houten in the RKD
- 2.Nichols, K. L. Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893.
- 3.Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
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