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Margaretha Roosenboomartist • painter • watercolourist • draughtsmanDen Haag 1843-1896 Voorburg

biography of 'Margaretha' Cornelia Johanna Wilhelmina Henriëtta Roosenboom

Margaretha Roosenboom was born in The Hague, but spent a large part of her youth in Brussels. There she received her first painting lessons from her father, the famous landscape painter N.J. Roosenboom. When she was 24, she moved in with her grandfather Andreas Schelfhout in The Hague and immediately started working in his studio, where he taught her watercolour techniques. Margaretha prefers to paint flowers in their most natural state, suitable in vases or as a bouquet placed loose on the forest floor. This means that her still lifes also include wild and spent flowers.

Flower painting developed in the second half of the 19th century. Still lifes had lost their moralistic undertone. With her way of painting, Roosenboom consciously breaks with the tradition of the 18th century, carefully arranged showpiece still life that consisted of many different types of flowers, rigidly arranged in a vase. She prefers to choose one type of flower – often roses – as the main motif of her paintings and watercolors. Sometimes she adds some fruit or another type of flower in a different colour. Around 1850, Gerardine van de Sande Bakhuyzen had already preceded her in this by loosely draping fruit and flowers on a stone plinth or the forest floor. But because Roosenboom excelled in watercolour technique, she was able to render the colours in her still lifes much more transparent and softer and her work had a greater impressionistic appearance. A contemporary wrote about her warm tones and specific use of colour: 'Vermeer had his own blue (...) Rembrandt his golden range of colours, Margaretha Roosenboom hair, nuances shining like pink pearls'. In 1887, Roosenboom moved in with her cousin Maria van Wielink and her husband, the landscape painter Johannes Gijsbertus Vogel, in Hilversum. Three years later they all move to Voorburg. When Maria died in 1892, Roosenboom married Vogel at the age of 49.

Together with Gerardine van de Sande Backhuyzen and Adriana Haanen, Roosenboom was one of the leading flower still life painters of that time. Her work was sought after and sold well. She regularly exhibited at the exhibitions of the Pulchri Studio in The Hague and the Amsterdam Arti et Amicitiae, but also at the exhibitions of Living Masters. She was also very successful abroad; she won a gold medal at the world exhibitions in Vienna (1873) and Chicago (1893), as well as at an exhibition in Atlanta. She signed her work with 'Marguerite' especially for the French market. After her death at the age of 53 as a result of an accidental fall, Roosenboom fell somewhat into oblivion. But nowadays there is again a lot of interest in the still lifes, which were progressive in their time, in which the natural appearance of the flower is the main motif.


for salepaintings, watercolours and drawings by Margaretha Roosenboom


Margaretha Roosenboom | Still life with grapes, a lemon and flowers on the forest floor, oil on panel, 29.5 x 40.1 cm, signed l.l.

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • for sale

Still life with grapes, a lemon and flowers on the forest floor

Margaretha Roosenboom | Roses on a Spanish guitar, oil on canvas, 110.8 x 75.9 cm

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • for sale

Roses on a Spanish guitar

Margaretha Roosenboom | White chrysanthemums on a stone ledge, watercolour on paper, 44.6 x 74.9 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • for sale

White chrysanthemums on a stone ledge

Margaretha Roosenboom | Pink roses on a stone ledge, watercolour and gouache on paper, 35.1 x 53.3 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Pink roses on a stone ledge


previously for salepaintings, watercolours and drawings by Margaretha Roosenboom


Margaretha Roosenboom | Roses on the forest floor, oil on panel, 9.0 x 12.9 cm, signed l.r. with initials

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

Roses on the forest floor

Margaretha Roosenboom | Roses on a forest floor, oil on panel, 45.4 x 37.3 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

Roses on a forest floor

Margaretha Roosenboom | Rhododendron branches in a stoneware vase, oil on canvas, 64.8 x 43.5 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

Rhododendron branches in a stoneware vase

Margaretha Roosenboom | Still life with a bible, oil on canvas, 18.8 x 24.0 cm, signed l.l. with initials and executed in 1891

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

Still life with a bible

Margaretha Roosenboom | A flower still life, oil on paper laid down on panel, 25.0 x 33.1 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

A flower still life

Margaretha Roosenboom | A still life with primroses and grapes, oil on panel, 31.7 x 41.7 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

A still life with primroses and grapes

Margaretha Roosenboom | White roses, oil on canvas, 70.0 x 40.0 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

White roses

Margaretha Roosenboom | Pink roses, oil on canvas, 39.7 x 30.0 cm, signed l.l.

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

Pink roses

Margaretha Roosenboom | A still life with peaches, flowers and grapes, oil on panel, 40.0 x 33.6 cm, signed l.c. and dated 1859

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

A still life with peaches, flowers and grapes

Margaretha Roosenboom | A still life with flowers, oil on canvas, 64.5 x 55.5 cm, signed l.l.

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

A still life with flowers

Margaretha Roosenboom | Flowers in a basket, oil on panel, 15.0 x 14.3 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1863

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

Flowers in a basket

Margaretha Roosenboom | Flowers and grapes on a stone ledge, oil on panel, 26.0 x 33.9 cm, signed l.l.

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

Flowers and grapes on a stone ledge

Margaretha Roosenboom | A still life with lilacs, oil on canvas laid down on panel, 26.3 x 31.1 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

A still life with lilacs

Margaretha Roosenboom | Flowers on the riverbank, oil on panel, 7.4 x 11.2 cm, signed l.r. with initials

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

Flowers on the riverbank

Margaretha Roosenboom | A flower still life, oil on canvas, 91.9 x 59.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated '92

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

A flower still life

Margaretha Roosenboom | A swag of roses, oil on canvas, 103.0 x 68.3 cm, signed l.l.

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

A swag of roses

Margaretha Roosenboom | A bouquet on a forest-path, oil on panel, 7.9 x 12.0 cm, signed l.l.

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

A bouquet on a forest-path

Margaretha Roosenboom | Pink roses, oil on canvas, 68.0 x 48.5 cm, signed l.l. and dated '90

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

Pink roses

Margaretha Roosenboom | Pink roses, oil on panel, 22.0 x 30.0 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

painting • previously for sale

Pink roses

Margaretha Roosenboom | Pink roses in a stoneware vase, watercolour on paper, 65.0 x 43.4 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Pink roses in a stoneware vase

Margaretha Roosenboom | Sunflowers on a stone ledge, watercolour on paper, 44.3 x 74.8 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Sunflowers on a stone ledge

Margaretha Roosenboom | Sunflowers on a stone ledge, watercolour on paper, 44.3 x 74.8 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Sunflowers on a stone ledge

Margaretha Roosenboom | Roses on a ledge, watercolour and gouache on paper, 20.8 x 29.9 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Roses on a ledge

Margaretha Roosenboom | A still life with fruit and twigs on a plate, watercolour and gouache on paper, 46.6 x 66.3 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

A still life with fruit and twigs on a plate

Margaretha Roosenboom | A bouquet of tulips, watercolour and gouache on paper, 74.0 x 49.8 cm, signed r.c. and to be dated 1893-1896

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

A bouquet of tulips

Margaretha Roosenboom | Magnolias, watercolour on paper, 65.0 x 41.9 cm, signed l.l.

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Magnolias

Margaretha Roosenboom | A garland of pink roses, watercolour on paper, 48.3 x 75.3 cm, signed l.l.

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

A garland of pink roses

Margaretha Roosenboom | Water lilies, watercolour on paper, 33.0 x 51.7 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Water lilies

Margaretha Roosenboom | Yellow roses, watercolour on paper, 24.5 x 18.0 cm, signed l.r. with initials

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Yellow roses

Margaretha Roosenboom | A still life with peonies and hedge bindweed, watercolour on paper, 40.6 x 65.2 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

A still life with peonies and hedge bindweed

Margaretha Roosenboom | Yellow Roses, watercolour on paper, 53.5 x 36.0 cm

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Yellow Roses

Margaretha Roosenboom | A still life with violets, watercolour on paper, 33.8 x 52.7 cm, signed l.r. and dated '90

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

A still life with violets

Margaretha Roosenboom | A bouquet with hedge bindweed and poppies, watercolour on paper, 35.0 x 25.0 cm, signed l.r. with monogram

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

A bouquet with hedge bindweed and poppies

Margaretha Roosenboom | Peonies on a marble ledge, watercolour on paper, 39.5 x 74.5 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Peonies on a marble ledge

Margaretha Roosenboom | White roses in a glass vase, gouache on cardboard, 69.0 x 47.5 cm, signed l.r.

Margaretha Roosenboom

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

White roses in a glass vase


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