[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, 1883 ON THE SEA-Sh.o.r.e. AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING IN THE LUXEMBOURG, PARIS, DATED 1883, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY MESSRS. LeVY & SONS, PARIS Madame Virginie Demont-Breton, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, 1887 TO ABOUT 1892 BEFORE THE DANCE. AFTER AN ORIGINAL PAINTING DATED 1887, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY NEWIDEIN, PARIS Madame E. de Tavernier, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: DESOLATION. AFTER THE ORIGINAL STUDY FROM A PHOTOGRAPH LENT BY THE ARTIST Madame Marie Cazin, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, 1885 AND 1890 IN THE GYNaeCEUM. DATED 1885. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE ORIGINAL PAINTING BY BRAUN, CLeMENT & CO., PARIS Mlle. Diana Coomans, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: AT LOW TIDE. AFTER THE ORIGINAL PICTURE, DATED 1890. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRAUN, CLeMENT & CO. Mlle. Eugenie Salanson, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY "Sleep." Reproduced from a Photograph by permission of Braun, Clement & Co., the Owners of the Copyright.
Francine Charderon, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, FROM 1880 TO THE PRESENT DAY THE FRUIT GIRL. AFTER THE ORIGINAL PICTURE BY PERMISSION OF MESSRS. DURAND-RUEL & SONS, PARIS Madame Eva Gonzales, Painter 1849-1883]
[Ill.u.s.tration: STUDY FROM A MODEL. AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING FROM A PHOTOGRAPH LENT BY THE ARTIST Mademoiselle Dufau, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, 1880 AND 1894 A GOOD CIGARETTE. AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING, DATED 1880, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRAUN, CLeMENT & CO.
Madame Delphine de Cool, nee Fortin, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: A HOLIDAY AT SOSTHeNE. AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING, DATED 1894, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRAUN, CLeMENT & CO.
Madame Blanche Paymal-Amouroux, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, 1894 "STELLA MARIS." AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING, DATED 1894, AND EXHIBITED AT THE SALON IN 1895, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY NEWIDEIN, PARIS Madame Virginie Demont-Breton, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY MATERNAL LOVE. AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRAUN, CLEMENT & CO., PARIS Elizabeth Gardner (Madame W. A. Bouguereau), Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY "THE PATHWAY TO THE VILLAGE CHURCH." AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRAUN, CLeMENT & CO., PARIS Madame f.a.n.n.y Fleury, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY THE G.o.dDESSES BEFORE PARIS.
FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRAUN, CLeMENT & CO.
elisabeth Sonrel, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: WINTER. AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRAUN, CLEMENT & CO. Mlle. Louise Abbema, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS. AFTER THE ORIGINAL PICTURE FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRAUN, CLeMENT & CO.
Elizabeth Gardner (Madame W. A. Bouguereau), Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY MOTHER AND CHILD AFTER THE ORIGINAL PICTURE Madame Marie Cazin, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: THE SHEPHERD AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING Madame Marie Cazin, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY IMPRESSION OF A CITY.
AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING Mademoiselle Dufau, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: A BASKET OF FLOWERS. AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING Madame Victoria Dubourg (Fantin-Latour), Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY "THE DEPARTURE." REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION AFTER A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRAUN, CLeMENT & CO., PARIS Madame Vallet-Bisson, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY CHARACTER IN SPAIN AFTER THE ORIGINAL STUDY Mademoiselle Dufau, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: STUDY OF TIGERS. AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING Madame Abran, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY "LES CHANDELLES." AFTER AN ORIGINAL PAINTING EXHIBITED AT THE SALON IN 1896, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY NEWIDEIN, PARIS Madeleine Carpentier, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY IN SEARCH OF PREY. AFTER AN ORIGINAL PICTURE EXHIBITED AT THE PARIS SALON IN 1900, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY NEWIDEIN Mademoiselle E. Hilda, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY ROMEO AND JULIET. AFTER AN ORIGINAL PAINTING EXHIBITED AT THE PARIS SALON IN 1900, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY NEWIDEIN Mademoiselle A. Oppenheim, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, ABOUT 1892.
WILL YOU BUY? AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY MESSRS. BRAUN, CLeMENT & CO., PARIS Mademoiselle Consuelo Fould, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY CHILDREN EATING SOUP IN A CHARITY SCHOOL. FROM AN ORIGINAL PICTURE EXHIBITED AT THE PARIS SALON IN 1901. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY NEWIDEIN Mademoiselle E. Herland, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY COURTSHIP FROM A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE ORIGINAL PAINTING BY BRAUN, CLeMENT & CO., PARIS Mdlle. Achille-Fould, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY "BeBe ET ZIZON." REPRODUCED FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY NEWIDEIN Madame Lucas-Robiquet, Painter "DO YOU WANT A MODEL?" FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY NEWIDEIN Madame Real del Sarte, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: THE LESSON. AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRAUN CLeMENT & CO. Mlle. Josephine Houssay, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FRENCH SCHOOL, 1903 AND 1904 PORTRAIT. AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRAUN, CLeMENT & CO., PARIS Madame Le Roy, Painter]
[Ill.u.s.tration: FLORA. AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRAUN, CLeMENT & CO., PARIS Mademoiselle Claudie, Painter]
Women Painters in Belgium and in Holland
By N. Jany. Translated by Edgar Preston
As far as we are able to ascertain, the history of the present subject takes us back to the time of Hubert and Jean Van Eyck, whose sister Marguerite made a name for herself in art. In the important volume by M. J. du Jardin, "L"Art Flamand," there is reproduced a drawing "after" a miniature by Marguerite Van Eyck, representing St. Catherine and St. Agnes, but we read elsewhere that "no work can with certainty be attributed to her."
Among women workers a century later, we find: Clara de Keyzer, Suzanne h.o.r.ebout and Anna Smyters, all three of Ghent. Clara de Keyzer, who flourished about 1530, visited Germany, Italy, France and Spain.
Suzanne h.o.r.ebout (1503-1545) was the daughter of Gerard h.o.r.ebout, a painter of Ghent, who betook himself to England, and became painter to Henry VIII. Durer knew him at Antwerp, in 1521, and there paid homage to the skill of his daughter, who was then barely 18 years of age. She accompanied her father to England, and was there received with the utmost favour; she made a rich marriage with John Parcker (or Parker), one of the King"s archers, and died full of honours in her adopted country.
Anne Smyters who flourished about 1540, is named in words of praise by Van Mander, Vaernewyck and Guicciardini. She married the celebrated sculptor, Jean de Heere, and was the mother of Luc de Heere, the painter, who made a long stay in England, where, among other works of importance, he did a series of decorative paintings for the Earl of Lincoln.
Siret"s "Dictionnaire" tells us that "in 1868, M. Lescart, a barrister of Mons, was the possessor of the only known picture by Catherine van Hemessen. This is a half-length study of the Virgin fondling the infant Christ, with a background of landscape wherein one perceives snow. It is painted on wood, and bears the signature: "Caterina de Hemessen pingebat."" But there is in London an interesting portrait of a man, by her, dated 1552, and an ill.u.s.tration of it will be found on page 263.
Then comes a series of daughters (and a sister) of famous painters, viz: Justine van Dyck; Gertrude van Veen; Catherine Pepyn; Catherine Peeters; Anne-Marie, Francoise-Catherine and Marie-Therese van Thielen; and Laurence-Catherine Ykens. The daughter of Antony van Dyck was born in London, in 1641. "She was wedded at the age of 12," says Siret"s "Dictionnaire," "to Sir John Stepney de Prendergast, and abjured Protestantism at Antwerp on the 19th of August, 1660. Left a widow, she made a second marriage with Martin de Carbonell. Van Dyck"s daughter was unfortunate, for she found herself compelled to ask the King for a pension, which she obtained."
The daughter of Otto van Veen, known as Venius, the teacher of Rubens, was born at Antwerp in 1602. She was a pupil of her father, and married Louis Malo. The Brussels gallery contains a portrait of her father, from her brush. She died in 1643. The daughter of Martin Pepyn lived in Antwerp about 1619. She specialised in portrait work, and was received into the Corporation of St. Luke, of that city, in 1650, by virtue of being a daughter of the master.
The success obtained by the flower-paintings of Seghers and Breughel suddenly caused a great development of this special branch of art, to which, moreover, the celebrated Dutchman Jean-David de Heem, then domiciled in Antwerp, was a notable contributor. Among the women who became inspired by their example and followed their technique may be mentioned: Catherine Peeters, and the three daughters, pupils of the painter, Jean-Philippe van Thielen (himself a direct disciple of Seghers), and Laurence-Catherine Ykens.
The registers of the Antwerp Academy for 1784 contain the name of Marie Baesten, _nee_ Ommeganck. Siret"s "Dictionnaire" also mentions (at Bruges), the daughter of Louis de Deyster, the painter. Anne de Deyster (1690-1747) attracted notice by the perfection with which she copied her father"s pictures. Gertrude de Pelichy, of Utrecht (1743-1825), was appointed an honorary member of the Imperial and Royal Academy of Painting in Vienna, and at Bruges she painted the portrait of the Emperor Joseph II., and that of the Empress Maria-Theresa.