Adri Bleuland van Oordt | |
Native Name: | Adriana Maria Hendrika Bleuland van Oordt |
Birth Date: | 1862 6, df=y |
Birth Place: | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
Death Place: | Hilversum |
Nationality: | Dutch |
Alma Mater: | Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) |
Notable Works: | Portrait of Queen Wilhelmina |
Adri Bleuland van Oordt was a Dutch artist and draftswoman who was active from around 1877 until her death in 1944.[1]
Adriana Maria Hendrika Bleuland van Oordt (known as Adri Bleuland van Oordt) was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands on 5 June 1862 to Guilhelmina Catharina Arnoudina Hoogwerff and Jan Bleuland van Oordt.[2] [3] She was educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1884 to 1889.
Bleuland van Oordt painted portraits, still life images, figures, fruit, and scenes, including with pastels, oil paint, chalk and watercolors.[4] She portrayed Queen Wilhelmina in 1899 as well as Joannes Pieter Roetert Tak van Poortvliet around the same time.[5]
Bleuland van Oordt was a member of the Amsterdam Artists Association of Sint Lucas. As a member of this association, her work was regularly exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum. In addition to her work as a visual artist, Bleuland van Oordt was active in the women's rights movement and obtaining women's suffrage. During the First World War she receivedBelgian refugees. Her sister Johanna Bleuland van Oordt was also a published artist.[6]
Bleuland van Oordt died in Hilversum on 21 October 1944.