Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley

Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley
self portrait, 1897
Born(1860-07-13)July 13, 1860
Perth Amboy, New Jersey
DiedFebruary 8, 1958(1958-02-08) (aged 97)
Rijsoord, Netherlands
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting,
Spouse
Bastiaan de Koning
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(m. 1901; died in 1954)​
Twee vrouwen

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

  1. ^ "Hawley, Wilhelmina Douglas (1860-1958)". Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Wilhelmina Douglas de Koning-Hawley". RKD (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley". Society of the Hawley Family, Inc. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  4. ^ Murray, Joan (2012). Laura Muntz Lyall: Impressions of Women and Childhood. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen`s University Press. p. 21. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
  5. ^ "Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley". Kunstbus (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley". AskArt. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  7. ^ ""For Two Years, or Perhaps Forever"; Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley and the artists' colony in Rijsoord | Nationaal Archief".