Henriëtte Ronner-Knip worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Henriëtte Ronner-Knip as Dutch-Belgian painter (1821–1909).
Henriëtte Ronner-Knip was born at Amsterdam in 1821. Her recorded nationality is Netherlands.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
She worked as painter, draftsperson and watercolorist.
Among her best-known works are Three against one: A cat hissing at three dogs, The cat at play and Cat with Kittens. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Henriëtte Ronner-Knip died in 1909, aged 88. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Three against one: A cat hissing at three dogs
- Notable work: The cat at play
- Notable work: Cat with Kittens
