Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt
Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt | |
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.png) Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt, self portrait | |
| Born | Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt 1747 |
| Died | 1797 (aged 49–50) |
| Other name | Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt (born name) |
| Occupations | Painter, Draftsman |
Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt (born Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt; 1747–1797) was an 18th-century painter from Germany.
Biography
He was born in Hamm and moved to The Hague where he became a pupil of Hieronymus Lapis and started a family.[1] He moved to London in 1786 for economic reasons and did quite well there. His daughter Katharina learned to draw and paint and became a poet; she married Willem Bilderdijk after having an affair with him in 1795 when he taught her and her sisters in London.[2] Schweickhardt died in London.[1]
References
External links
- 3 artworks by or after Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt at the Art UK site
- Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickardt on Artnet
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt.
Categories:
- 1747 births
- 1797 deaths
- Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire
- German emigrants to the Kingdom of Great Britain
- 18th-century Dutch painters
- 18th-century Dutch male artists
- 18th-century German painters
- People from Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia
- 18th-century German male painters
- German painter, 18th-century birth stubs