Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits
Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits (1867-1941) was a Dutch botanical illustrator.
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Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits
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- Name
- Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits
- Born
- 21 October 1867
- Birthplace
- Leiden, Netherlands
- Died
- 27 January 1941
- Education
- Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
- Field
- Illustration, Painting
- Occupation
- painter
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• Name — Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits • Born — 21 October 1867 • Birthplace — Leiden, Netherlands • Died — 27 January 1941 • Place of death — Leiden, Netherlands • Education — Royal Academy of Art, The Hague • Field — Illustration, Painting
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Pavord Smits was born on 21 October 1867 in Leiden, Netherlands. She attended the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. She studied with Jan Philip Koelman, Willem van der Nat, Timotheus Wilhelmus Ouwerkerk, and Mathilde Frederika Wilhelmina Tonnet. She worked as an illustrator for the journal "Flora Batava" and the Rijksherbarium te Leiden (National Herbarium of the Netherlands). Pavord Smits died on 27 January 1941, in Leiden.
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• Illustration — Tulipa linifolia Regel • Illustration — Mushrooms in the Woods
Columnea schiedeana
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Columnea gloriosa
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