Lizzy Ansingh artwork • painting • previously for sale Self-portrait
Lizzy Ansingh
Utrecht 1875-1959 Amsterdam
1875-1959
Self-portrait
oil on painter's cardboard 52.0 x 35.5 cm
This painting was previously for sale.
Literature: N. de Zwaan, 'De Joffers. Heusche dames die hun mannetje stonden', Midi 4 (2000), afb. in kleur pag. 56
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.
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