Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt

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Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt
Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt, self portrait
Born
Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt

1747
Died1797 (aged 49–50)
NationalityGerman
Other namesHeinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt (born name)
Occupation(s)Painter, Draftsman
Landscape with fishermen and turf collectors

Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt (born Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt; 1747–1797), was an 18th-century painter from Germany.

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He was born in Hamm and moved to The Hague where he became a pupil of Hieronymus Lapis and started a family.[1] 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.[2] Schweickhardt died in London.[1]

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