Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley
Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley | |
|---|---|
| File:Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley self portrait, 1897.jpg self portrait, 1897 | |
| Born | July 13, 1860 Perth Amboy, New Jersey |
| Died | February 8, 1958 (aged 97) Rijsoord, Netherlands |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting, |
| Spouse |
Bastiaan de Koning
(m. 1901; died in 1954) |
Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley (1860-1958) was an American painter who emigrated to the Netherlands.[1][2]
Biography
Hawley was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey on July 13, 1860.[2] She studied at the Cooper Union Women's Art School and the Art Students League of New York.[3] In 1892 she traveled to Paris where she studied at the Académie Julian[2] and registered at the Académie Colarossi where she taught watercolour since 1893 as the first female teacher.[4] In 1893, she and her friend Laura Muntz (later Lyall) traveled to Rijsoord, in the Netherlands. There she met Bastiaan de Koning (1868-1954) whom she married in 1901.[5] The couple settled in Rijsoord. Hawley exhibited work at the National Academy of Design, and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors,[6] and the Paris Salon.[2] She was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the New York Watercolor Society, and the Woman's Art Club of New York[6] She served on the board of the Art Students League of New York.[3] Hawley died on February 8, 1958, in Rijsoord, Netherlands.[2] Author: Alexandra van Dongen[7]
References
- ↑ "Hawley, Wilhelmina Douglas (1860-1958)". Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Wilhelmina Douglas de Koning-Hawley". RKD (in Nederlands). Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley". Society of the Hawley Family, Inc. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- ↑ Murray, Joan (2012). Laura Muntz Lyall: Impressions of Women and Childhood. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen`s University Press. p. 21. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
- ↑ "Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley". Kunstbus (in Nederlands). Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley". AskArt. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- ↑ ""For Two Years, or Perhaps Forever"; Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley and the artists' colony in Rijsoord | Nationaal Archief".