Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt

Landscape with fishermen and turf collectors

Hendrik Willem 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]

References

  1. 1 2 Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt in the RKD
  2. ↑ Katharina Schweickhardt in 1001 Vrouwen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis
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