About Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt
Lived 1747 – 1797 (aged 49–50). Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt was a German painter.
Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt (born Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt; 1747–1797) was an 18th-century painter from Germany.
Biography He was born in Hamm and moved to The Hague where he became a pupil of Hieronymus Lapis and started a family. He moved to London in 1786 for economic reasons and did quite well there. His daughter Katharina learned to draw and paint and became a poet; she married Willem Bilderdijk after having an affair with him in 1795 when he taught her and her sisters in London. Schweickhardt died in London.
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Who was Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt?
painter from Germany (1747-1797)
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Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt was born in 1747 in Hamm.
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Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt died on 8 July 1797 in London.
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Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt was a painter.
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Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt was German.
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