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Alida Withoos (c. 1661/62 – 5 December 1730 (buried)) was a Dutch botanical artist and painter. She was the daughter of the painter Matthias Withoos.
Life
Alida Withoos was born in Amersfoort. With three brothers Johannes, Pieter, Frans, and her sister Maria, she was trained by her father in painting still lifes and botanical illustrations.[1][2] Because of the invasion of Utrecht by the French, the family moved to Hoorn in 1672. In 1701, Alida married the Fijnschilder Andries Cornelisz van Dalen, a typical example of relations between artistic and painterly families in seventeenth and eighteenth century Holland.[3]
A training in painting was expensive and not often given to daughters, but talented daughters could be trained to work in the studio of their father, uncle, brother or spouse, often under his name. Unlike her husband, brothers and sister, Alida acquired a certain reputation painting under her own name, principally due to her botanical images. In Hoorn a number of the Withoos children were active as artists of flowers, birds, butterflies and insects. In inventories, such images were regularly called "Withoosjes".[3]
Alida was – with her brother Pieter – one of the many artists who painted plants on the country house place Vijverhof in the service of Agnes Block.[1] She painted in 1687 (at Agnes Block's) the first pineapple bred in Europe, though these images have unfortunately not survived. Thirteen water colours that Alida made in 1694 for the coloured Moninckx Atlas, along with 425 images of plants in the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam (where plants brought back in the ships of the Dutch East India Company were grown in neat rows as at Block's house), have survived. The Library of Wageningen University own a book of drawings bought by the collector Simon Schijnvoet that includes 7 by Alida Withoos, perhaps made for Block. These give a good idea of the high quality of her work.
She was buried in the Western Church in Amsterdam.[3]
References
- Segal, Sam; Alen, Klara (25 September 2020). Dutch and Flemish flower pieces : paintings, drawings and prints up to the nineteenth century. Leiden. ISBN 978-90-04-42745-7. OCLC 1145451726.
- Wijnands, D. O. (2000). The botany of the Commelins : a taxonomical, nomenclatural, and historical account of the plants depicted in the Moninckx Atlas and in the four books by Jan and Caspar Commelin on the plants in the Hortus Medicus Amstelodamensis, 1682-1710 (First ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-003-07906-4. OCLC 1196192987.
- Missel, Liesbeth (27 April 2016). "Withoos, Alida (c. 1661-1730)". Digital Women's Lexicon of the Netherlands. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
External links
- Biography in Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon
- Alida Withoos and her work – Digital exhibitions of Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
- Konstboeck
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[de] Alida Withoos
Alida Withoos (* ca. 1661/1662 in Amersfoort; begraben 5. Dezember 1730 in Amsterdam) war eine niederländische Illustratorin der Botanik und Malerin von Stillleben. Sie wird der kunsthistorischen Epoche des Barock zugerechnet.- [en] Alida Withoos
[fr] Alida Withoos
Alida Withoos, née en 1659 ou en 1660 à Amersfoort ou à Amsterdam, et morte en 1699 ou après 1715 à Hoorn, est une artiste botanique et une artiste-peintre. Elle est la fille du peintre Matthias Withoos.[it] Alida Withoos
Alida Withoos (Amersfoort, 1659 o 1661 – Amsterdam, 5 dicembre 1730[1] o 1699[2] o dopo il 1715[3]) è stata una pittrice e illustratrice olandese del secolo d'oro.[ru] Витхос, Алида
Алида Витхос (нидерл. Alida Withoos; 1661, Амерсфорт, Республика Соединённых провинций — 5 декабря 1730, Амстердам, Республика Соединённых провинций) — нидерландская художница, представительница «Золотого века» нидерландской живописи, дизайнер и иллюстратор.Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
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