In the history of art, Jacoba van Heemskerck is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Jacoba van Heemskerck as Dutch painter (1876-1923).
Jacoba van Heemskerck was born at The Hague in 1876. Her recorded nationality is Netherlands.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
She worked as painter, graphic artist and glass artist.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
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.
Jacoba van Heemskerck died in 1923, aged 47. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
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