Jacoba van Heemskerck

Jkvr. Jacoba Berendina van Heemskerck van Beest (Dutch pronunciation: [jaːˈkoːbaː beːrɛnˈdinaː vɑn ˈɦeːmskɛrk vɑn beːst]; 1 April 1876 – 2/3 August 1923) was a Dutch painter.

Biography

Landscape (c. 1914)

Jacoba Berendina van Heemskerck van Beest was born on 1 April 1876 in The Hague in the Netherlands. She was the daughter of Jonkheer Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest.^[1]

Van Heemskerck van Beest was a pupil of her father and studied art at the Royal Academy in The Hague. She later took lessons until 1904 from Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig.

She spent her summers in Domburg where she became familiar with the work of Piet Mondriaan and Jan Toorop. After 1911 she became influenced by Rudolf Steiner and began making more abstract art, and her mecenas Marie Tak van Poortvliet began collecting her work and offered her the use of a workshop in her home in The Hague. From 1916 she began designing stained-glass windows, for which she received a few municipal commissions.

Van Heemskerck van Beest died of angina, at the age of 47, in Domburg on 2 or 3 August 1923.^[1]

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