Therese
Susan,
I have never seen the painting you've mentioned, but the artist sounds like it could be Therese Schwartze (1851-1918). Schwartze is a Dutch artist, and I was fortunate to see several of her paintings around Amsterdam last fall. She is best known for painting the portraits of the daily life of the young woman in a latter 19th century orphanage. The girls dressed in black dresses with sheer collars, head pieces, and sleeves. Her work was wonderful, painterly, and she had a tremendously accomplished sense of complex composition.
That fall, I saw an incredible amount of art in trips to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, and London, and it was taking an increasingly notable artist to impress me toward the end of the trip. Her paintings did that and more. I looked throughout book stores in Amsterdam, and found only a few postcards with her works on them. No books, no catalogs. I, also, would be interested in any information on Therese Schwartze. I am afraid that she is like Ivan Kramskoi (Russian) or Jan Matayko (Polish), incredible artists lost in the history books, overshadowed by lesser artists with better publicists.
Last edited by Cynthia Daniel; 11-10-2001 at 09:13 AM.
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