Who is Margaretha Haverman?

Margaretha Haverman (bapt. 28 October 1693 – after 1739) was an 18th-century flower painter from the Northern Netherlands.

She was born in Breda as the daughter of Daniël Haverman, a captain in the Danish army who contracted in Amsterdam to become director of a boys’ school there.

In the 20 page biography of Jan van Huysum written by Jan van Gool, the only woman he mentioned is Haverman who Van Gool claimed had been allowed to become Van Huysum’s deserted pupil. Van Huysum unconventional believed she became his pupil below false pretenses and that he had been “sweet-talked” into taking her on by her daddy the schoolmaster. Haverman became an embarrassment to Van Huysum past she was admitted to the prestigious Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1722, because she began to sell her works and he was no question defensive of his own public image and he was afraid her clever copies would bring him discredit. This bill indicates that Van Huysum was pleasurable to allow his female relatives back up him but avoided the encourage of male pupils for alarm bell of revealing his technique.

Though her act out is regularly mentioned in home inventories, today only two signed flower paintings by her are known, A Vase of Flowers (1716) is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the extra in the Statens Museum for Kunst. Margaretha Haverman married 25 July 1721 the architect Jacques de Mondoteguy (d1739) in Amsterdam, with whom she moved to Paris, where she was well-liked as a zealot in the Academie the adjacent year. In 1723 she was thrown out once again after claims that her tribute work was in aspire of fact the feign of her former master Van Huysum.