Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt

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Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt
File:HW Schweickhardt - Selbstbildnis (ÖaL).png
Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt, self portrait
Born
Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt

1747
Died1797 (aged 49–50)
NationalityGerman
Other namesHeinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt (born name)
Occupation(s)Painter, Draftsman
File:Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt - Landschap met vissers en turfstekende boeren in het laagveen.jpg
Landscape with fishermen and turf collectors

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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