Search by artist
Sluit

Lucie van Dam van Isseltartist • painter • watercolourist • draughtsmanBergen op Zoom 1871-1949 Den Haag

biography of Lucie van Dam van Isselt

Portrait of artist, painter, watercolourist and draughtsman Lucie van Dam van Isselt

Portrait of Lucie van Dam van Isselt

Lucie van Dam van Isselt (1871–1949) showed a great talent for drawing at a young age. She attended the Hague Academy from 1891 and settled in Veere on Walcheren in 1907, where she soon fell under the spell of the bright, Zeeland light. During that period she started painting flowers and very personal, modest still lifes: small gems that were permeated with a pearly, silvery tone. A regularly recurring subject are the 'little girls', which were portrayed in oil or watercolor. It is suspected that her preference for bright grays and whites, occasionally interspersed with a still life against a dark background, was influenced by her painter friend Walter Vaes.
During her education at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Lucie van Dam married the painter Evert Ekker in 1892. In 1900, the year after the birth of their first son, the family moves to Renkum where they take up residence in the villa 'De Beekhof'. The house grows into a meeting center for various artists who seek their inspiration in the picturesque nature in the Oosterbeek area. Like many artists, Van Dam van Isselt also regularly visits Domburg, where her painting cousin Mies (Elout-) Drabbe lives, but also Veere, which was emerging as an artist's place.
The marriage between Lucie and Evert was not a happy one. In their first years together Lucie and Evert traveled a lot, after the birth of their second son Ekker sets off alone. In 1907 Lucie files for a divorce, very unusual and scandalous in those days; moreover, a woman hardly had any rights. Lucie is forced to leave her children behind and she leaves for Veere. She immediately established herself there as an independent artist to provide for her own income and she would continue to live there until 1933. She was thus the first of the nine independent female artists – the Veerse Joffers – who lived and worked in Veere between 1907 and 1922. In Veere Lucie tries to devote herself entirely to art again, encouraged by the Flemish luminist Théo van Rijsselberghe, who was regularly there to capture the special Zeeland light in his pointillist paintings. He advises her to start etching in addition to oil paint and watercolor
In 1909 she remarries the erudite, but arrogant and feared art critic Albert C.A. Plasschaert (1874-1941). Both are involved in the cultural life of Veere, which had become a meeting place for artists, writers and musicians. Despite their strong cultural interest, the marriage does not last. Plasschaert had a strong desire to have children, which was very painful for Lucie because she was already old and was not allowed to see her own children. Their marriage was dissolved in 1922.
Lucie, meanwhile, participates annually - from 1911 to 1920 - in exhibitions in the exhibition room built by Jan Toorop in Domburg, now Museum Tak van Poortvliet. Other exhibitors included Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig, Jacoba van Heemskerk, Charley Toorop and Piet Mondriaan. From 1911, Van Dam van Isselt devoted herself to painting small, refined (flower) still lifes, which she decided after a trip through Italy that year with Plasschaert: 'because I saw Titian Flora, that white, reddish woman with that bouquet. primroses in hand. Then I knew that I could reach no further spiritually and by hand than this wonderfully painted bouquet of flowers.' These still lifes are widely praised for their texture and delicate atmospheric drawing.
Lucie van Dam van Isselt will live and work in Veere for over twenty-five years. Like no other she has captured the beauty of Veere in all its facets in her work. She was an intriguing personality, had a rich active and social life, but also had to deal with adversity and grief. Quite unexpectedly she left Veere in March 1933 and settled in The Hague, where she died in June 1949, a few days before her seventy-eighth birthday.

for salepaintings, watercolours and drawings by Lucie van Dam van Isselt


Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Still life with a green money box, oil on panel, 31.1 x 39.5 cm, signed l.l.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • for sale

Still life with a green money box

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Flowers under a glass bell jar, oil on panel, 59.9 x 38.8 cm, signed l.r. and zonder lijst

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • for sale

Flowers under a glass bell jar

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Still life with flowers, butterflies and wedding figurine, oil on panel, 45.2 x 53.2 cm, signed r.u.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • for sale

Still life with flowers, butterflies and wedding figurine


previously for salepaintings, watercolours and drawings by Lucie van Dam van Isselt


Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Purple clematis in a celadon green vase, oil on panel, 47.1 x 38.4 cm, signed u.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Purple clematis in a celadon green vase

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Still life of chestnuts, oil on panel, 31.7 x 40.1 cm, signed l.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Still life of chestnuts

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Flowering succulent, oil on board, 61.0 x 32.2 cm, signed m.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Flowering succulent

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Eggs in a bird's nest against a background of old Dutch tiles, oil on panel, 30.1 x 40.2 cm, signed c.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Eggs in a bird's nest against a background of old Dutch tiles

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Red lillies, oil on panel, 40.2 x 30.1 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1930

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Red lillies

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Summer flowers, oil on panel, 82.8 x 63.0 cm, signed l.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Summer flowers

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Autumn Chrysanthemum, oil on panel, 75.4 x 63.2 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1930-1935

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Autumn Chrysanthemum

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | A still life with mussels, oil on panel, 40.2 x 50.0 cm, signed l.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

A still life with mussels

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Zinnias, oil on panel, 31.9 x 40.2 cm, signed l.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Zinnias

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Daisies in a white vase, oil on panel, 56.1 x 71.1 cm, signed l.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Daisies in a white vase

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | A still life with apples on a pewter plate, oil on painter's board, 38.4 x 62.9 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca.1940-1941

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

A still life with apples on a pewter plate

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Zinnia, oil on panel, 27.0 x 21.5 cm, signed l.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Zinnia

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Radish  Voorbeeldgebruik van '':automatisch vertaald door GoogleNederlandsEngelsArabischAlpha  Bunch radishes on tiles, oil on panel, 31.7 x 46.1 cm, signed l.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Radish Voorbeeldgebruik van '':automatisch vertaald door GoogleNederlandsEngelsArabischAlpha Bunch radishes on tiles

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Three colours, oil on panel, 23.5 x 23.7 cm

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Three colours

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Earthenware bowl with Lady's purse, oil on panel, 54.8 x 49.8 cm, signed l.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Earthenware bowl with Lady's purse

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | A glass with Biedermeier bouquet, oil on panel, 55.5 x 46.7 cm, signed c.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

A glass with Biedermeier bouquet

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Cactus, oil on panel, 45.7 x 37.0 cm, signed r.c. and executed ca. 1920

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Cactus

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Still life with zinnia and fuchsia, oil on panel, 46.8 x 55.6 cm, signed l.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Still life with zinnia and fuchsia

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Still life with daisy, oil on panel, 23.3 x 19.9 cm, signed l.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Still life with daisy

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | A bird's nest, oil on panel, 27.2 x 34.8 cm, signed l.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

A bird's nest

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | A still life with flowers and a plaster statue, oil on panel, 44.1 x 32.7 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1919 on the reverse

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

A still life with flowers and a plaster statue

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | A still life with white roses in a glass vase, oil on panel, 31.9 x 42.7 cm, signed l.l. and painted circa 1920-1925.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

A still life with white roses in a glass vase

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | A still life with necklace, oil on panel, 31.4 x 47.5 cm, signed l.r. and painted between 1920-1922

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

A still life with necklace

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | A still life with violets, oil on panel, 14.0 x 22.0 cm, signed l.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

A still life with violets

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | A still life, oil on panel, 53.0 x 62.7 cm, signed u.r. and painted in 1948

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

A still life

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | Interior, oil on panel, 57.6 x 47.0 cm, signed l.r.

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

painting • previously for sale

Interior

Lucie van Dam van Isselt | A still life (study), pencil and watercolour on paper, 11.5 x 13.6 cm, signed u.r. and dated 1948

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

A still life (study)


Open all year round

Tuesday to Saturday from 11-17 hours and by appointment