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.
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]