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Hetty Broedelet-Henkesartist • painterDelfshaven 1877-1966 Deventer

biography of Hester 'Hetty' Broedelet-Henkes

Hetty Henkes is best known as a painter of flower and fruit still lifes, but at a young age she also drew and painted meritorious (children's) portraits. Her early, intimate still lifes are painted in warm tones on a dark ground, but from 1908 the background becomes lighter and the touch looser. Between 1891 and 1898 Henkes was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, where she already received an honorable mention in the 'still life drawing' department in her first year of study. At the academy she met the painter André Broedelet, whom she married in 1901. Henkes lived most of her life in The Hague, where she was a working member of Pulchi Studio since 1909.


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Hetty Broedelet-Henkes | Daisies in a ginger jar, oil on panel, 27.8 x 35.1 cm, signed u.r.

Hetty Broedelet-Henkes

painting • for sale

Daisies in a ginger jar


previously for salepaintings by Hetty Broedelet-Henkes


Hetty Broedelet-Henkes | A still life with fruit, oil on panel, 21.1 x 32.4 cm, signed l.r.

Hetty Broedelet-Henkes

painting • previously for sale

A still life with fruit

Hetty Broedelet-Henkes | A still life with lobster and oysters, oil on panel, 33.5 x 71.9 cm, signed l.r.

Hetty Broedelet-Henkes

painting • previously for sale

A still life with lobster and oysters

Hetty Broedelet-Henkes | Primroses in a vase, oil on panel, 28.3 x 27.7 cm, signed l.r.

Hetty Broedelet-Henkes

painting • previously for sale

Primroses in a vase


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