In the history of art, Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate as German artist (1622-1709).
Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate was born at The Hague in 1622. Her recorded nationality is Electoral Palatinate.
Patronage, the guild system and a new open art market shaped what could be painted and for whom.
She worked as painter, nun and writer.
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 Electoral Palatinate shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate died in 1709, aged 87. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
