Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits
Dutch botanical illustrator
About Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits
Lived 1867 – 1941 (aged 73). Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits was a Dutch botanical illustrator, painter, watercolorist and draftsperson.
Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits (1867-1941) was a Dutch botanical illustrator.
Biography Pavord Smits was born on 21 October 1867 in Leiden, Netherlands. She attended the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. She studied with Jan Philip Koelman, , , and Mathilde Frederika Wilhelmina Tonnet. She worked as an illustrator for the journal "Flora Batava" and the Rijksherbarium te Leiden (National Herbarium of the Netherlands).
Pavord Smits died on 27 January 1941, in Leiden.
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Dutch botanical illustrator (1867-1941)
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Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits was born on 21 October 1867 in Leiden.
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Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits died on 27 January 1941 in Leiden.
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Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits was a botanical illustrator, painter, watercolorist and draftsperson.
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Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits was Dutch.
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