Antonina Houbraken
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Antonina Houbraken was an 18th century artist from the Northern Netherlands
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, who assisted him and her brother Jacob with his prints for his Schouburg. She became good at drawing and later married Jacobus Stellingwerff
, who she assisted in making topographical drawings for the albums of Andries and Gerrit Schoemaker, collectors of topographical prints. After the death of her husband, she continued this business, sometimes signing her works with the signature of her late husband.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
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Biography
She was the daughter of Arnold HoubrakenArnold Houbraken
Arnold Houbraken was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age. He had ten children. His son Jacobus Houbraken was an engraver of portraits and book illustrations, including books by his father...
, who assisted him and her brother Jacob with his prints for his Schouburg. She became good at drawing and later married Jacobus Stellingwerff
Jacobus Stellingwerff
Jacobus Stellingwerff , was an 18th century artist from the Northern Netherlands.-Biography:According to the RKD he was a pen draughtsman who made topographical sketches for prints in the style of Roelant Roghman and his sisters. He married Antonina Houbraken, who assisted him in his business...
, who she assisted in making topographical drawings for the albums of Andries and Gerrit Schoemaker, collectors of topographical prints. After the death of her husband, she continued this business, sometimes signing her works with the signature of her late husband.