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TERESA SCHWARTZE (1852— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 389 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TERESA

SCHWARTZE (1852— )  , Dutch portrait painter, was born at Amsterdam, the daughter of Johan Georg Schwartze (1814—1874), from whom she received her first training, before studying for a
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year under Gabriel Max and Franz von Lenbach in Munich . In 1879 she went to Paris to continue her studies under
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Jean Jacques Henner . Her portraits are remarkable for excellent character
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drawing, breadth and vigour of handling and rich quality of pigment . She is one of the few
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women painters Who have been honoured by an invitation to contribute their own portraits to the hall of the painters at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence . Some of her best pictures, notably a portrait of Piet J . Joubert, and " Three Inmates of the Orphanage at Amsterdam," are at the Ryks Museum, and one entitled " The
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Orphan " at the Boyman Museum in
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Rotterdam .

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