Coba Ritsema
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Jacoba Johanna Ritsema, or Coba Ritsema (1876, Haarlem – 1961, Amsterdam), was 19th century portrait painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Biography
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According to the RKD she was one of the "Amsterdamse Joffers" and a pupil of August Allebé, George Hendrik Breitner, Carel Lodewijk Dake, Fredrik Theodorus Grabijn, Jacob Ritsema (her brother), Thérèse Schwartze, and Nicolaas van der Waay.[1]
In 1910 she won the bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle et Internationale in Brussels, in 1912 and in 1923 she won a silver medal from the city of Amsterdam, and in 1918 she won a Royal medal given to her by Queen Wilhelmina.[1] In 1957 she won the Rembrandt prize.[1] She was a member of the Lucas Society in Amsterdam and the Pulchri Studio in the Hague, as well as being a member of the Teekengenootschap Pictura.[1]
She became a teacher of the students Grada Jacoba Wilhelmina Boks, Lize Duyvis, Jan den (1904-) Hengst, Tine Honig, Coba Surie, Hillegonga Henriëtte Tellekamp, Victoire Wirix, and Gonda Wulfse.[1]
