Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt Explained

Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt
Birth Name:Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt
Birth Date:1747
Birth Place:Hamm, Holy Roman Empire
Death Place:London, England
Nationality:German
Other Names:Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt (born name)
Occupation:Painter, Draftsman

Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt (born Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt; 1747 - 1797), was an 18th-century painter from Germany.

Biography

He was born in Hamm and moved to The Hague where he became a pupil of Hieronymus Lapis and started a family.[1] He moved to London in 1786 for economic reasons and did quite well there. His daughter Katharina learned to draw and paint and became a poet; she married Willem Bilderdijk after having an affair with him in 1795 when he taught her and her sisters in London.[2] Schweickhardt died in London.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. http://explore.rkd.nl/nl/artists/71523 Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt
  2. http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/en/lemmata/data/Schweickhardt Katharina Schweickhardt