Discover painter, draftsperson, watercolorist Barbara Elisabeth van Houten

Name variations

This field records and makes accessible name variations, as found in sources. Alternate spellings, nicknames, maiden names - with or without the married name - are included in this category.

: signed: BE v Houten, BE. van Houten

Monogram: BEVH
BVH

BEvH aaneen; BvH

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, watercolorist, etcher, manufacturer of woodcuts, member of family of artists, collector

Nationality/school: Dutch

Born: Groningen (city) 1862-04-08/1863-04-08
8 April 1862 (Jacobs 2000); 8 April 1862 or 1863 (Saur 1992- [AKL Online])

Deceased: The Hague (city) 1950-05-27

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: cousin of Alida, Anna Margareta and Gerrit van Houten and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten

This person/entity in other databases

14 hits in RKDimages as artist
3 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
4 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1877 - 1950
ca. 1877-1950

Education: École du Louvre (Parijs)

1879
Akademie van beeldende kunsten (Den Haag)

ca. 1876-1880 student in the course M.O. (HGA, ABK, bnr. 0058); 1879-1880 (Jacobs 2000)
Polytechnische School (Delft)

1881 MO Tekenen
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam)

1881-1882 (Derkinderen 1908)
Rijksnormaalschool voor Teekenonderwijzers (Amsterdam)

1881-1882

Active in

Den Haag (stad)
from 1869 onwars, she lived and worked primarily in The Hague
Parijs 1879
1 year
Amsterdam (stad) 1881 - 1882
ca. 1881-1882
Den Haag (stad) 1881 - 1950
from 1881 (Jacobs 2000); from ca. 1882

born in

active in

died in

Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Allebé, August
Arnaud Gerkens, Johannes Christiaan d'
Comte, Adolf le
Mesdag-van Houten, Sientje
Mesdag, Hendrik Willem
Perrichon, Jules Léon
she received advice from her uncle H.W. Mesdag and aunt S. Mesdag-van Houten Jacobs 2000)
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Behrend-Croiset van der Kop, Johanna
Rees-Dutilh, Adya van

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: genre, landscape (genre), portrait, flower piece, fruit piece, still life, figure, interior view

Medium/technique: oil paint, watercolor

Member of

Nederlandsche Etsclub

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 3 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Scheen 1969-1970
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 143 (as: Houten, Barbara Elisabeth van)
Scheen 1981 , p. 229 (as: Houten, Barbara Elisabeth ('Barbara') van;*)
Saur 1992- , AKLONLINE (as: Houten, Barbara Elisabeth van)
Jacobs 2000 , vol. 3 (2000), p. 195 (as: Houten, Barbara Elisabeth (Barbara) van)
Klarenbeek 2012 , passim

Catalogus van de tentoonstelling van kunstwerken door vrouwen vervaardigd in de kunstzaal van het panorama-gebouw, Plantage tegenover Artis, 1882, p. 9
Nationale tentoonstelling van vrouwenarbeid: catalogus van de rubriek beeldende kunst, Den Haag 1898 (jul-sep), p. 8, 14
Ph. Zilcken, 'Barbara van Houten', Elsevier's Geïllustreerd Maandschrift 11 (1901), p. 799-809
Nieuwe Gids (1908)
A.J. Derkinderen, De Rijks-Academie van Beeldende Kunsten te Amsterdam : Stads Teeken-Academie tot 1817, Koninklijke Academie 1817-1870, Rijks-Academie 1870 - heden, Haarlem 1908, Bijlage F. Naamlijst der leerlingen.
G.H. Marius, De Hollandsche schilderkunst in de negentiende eeuw, 's-Gravenhage 1920, p. 256
H.E. van Gelder, Honderd jaar Haagse schilderkunst in Pulchri Studio, Amsterdam 1947, p. 10, 11
G. Knuttel, Barbara van Houten, Amsterdam 1948
Kunst en Kunstleven, 2 (1950), p. 270-274
R. van der Wiel, Ewijkshoeve, tuin van tachtig, Amsterdam 1988, p. 31, 103, 112, 119
F. Leeman en H. Pennock [samenst.], Museum Mesdag. Catalogue of paintings and drawings, Amsterdam/Zwolle 1996, p. 227-228
R. Vetter en W. Vetter, Geesje van Calcar. Een echte Mesdag, Schipluiden 2001, p. 85

Haags Gemeentearchief (HGA), Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (ABK), bnr. 0058).

Documentation RKD

This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

Archive location: RKD Collectie Tentoonstellingsdocumentatie 'Levende Meesters'
Project: Penseelprinsessen & Broodschilderessen
The Dutch in Paris - Retour de Paris
Female mediators in the arts

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Creation date: 1992-01-11; Last modified date: 2022-06-02

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