Maria Elisabeth Georgina 'Lizzy' Ansingh
Utrecht 1875-1959 Amsterdam
The precious chair, oil on canvas laid down on panel 27,8 x 19,6 cm., signed l.r.
514029/Coll.I cv
Price band: between 5.000 and 10.000 euro
Lizzy Ansingh belonged to a small group of upper class, women painters known as the Amsterdam Joffers. She had her first painting lessons from her aunt, Thérèse Schwartze. Thereafter she studied at the Rijksacademie , Amsterdam, under the directorship of August Allebé and Nicolaas van der Waay. She painted broadly set down, colourful portraits, still lifes and dolls in half-light, the fairytale aspect of which appealed to her.