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A portrait of Maria Elisabeth Theresia (Elise) Schwartze-Herrmann with her grandchildren Letty and Lizzy Ansingh signed and dated 'Th. Schwartze. 1885.' (lower right) oil on canvas, 210x150 cm Exhibited: -Paris, Salon de Paris, Palais des Champs-Élysées, 1 May 1885-1886, cat. no. 2234, as: ‘Portraît de ma mère et de ses petits-enfants’. -London, Earl's Court, 'Women's Exhibtion London, Fine Art Section', 1900, cat. no. 1639, as: ‘Portrait of Artist’s Mother and her Grandchildren’ (a label with title ‘My mother with her grandchildren’, numbered 'no. 1', name and address of the artist 'Thérèse Schwartze, 1091 Prinsengracht Amsterdam', and with annotation '£400' and 'Not for sale' is attached to the stretcher). -Internationale Kunstausstellung, place and date unknown, no. 1555 (a label on the reverse). -Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 'Tentoonstelling van Nederlandsche Beeldende Kunsten, Regeeringsjubileum 1898-1923', 1923-1924 (according to a label attached to the stretcher). -Amsterdam, Arti et Amicitiae, ‘Herdenkings-tentoonstelling, portretten van tijdgenoten door Thérèse Schwartze’, 6 January-3 February 1952 (with a copy of the article by Kasper Niehaus . -Zeist, Slot Zeist, ‘Thérèse Schwartze (1851-1918), portret van een gevierd schilder’, 17 December 1989-25 February 1990. (a label of the art shipper Gerlach attached to the stretcher). Literature: -Salon de Paris, ‘Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture et lithograhie des artistes vivants, exposé au Palais des Champs-Elysées, Le 1er Mai 1885’, Paris 1885, cat. no. 2234, p. 195, as: ‘Portraît de ma mère et de ses petits-enfants’. -Earl's Court, 'Woman's Exhibition 1900', London 1900, p. 40, cat. no. 1639, as: ‘Portrait of Artist’s Mother and her Grandchildren’, and with description in the introductory notice by Francis Howard on p. 15. -Willem Martin, ‘Thérèse van Duyl-Schwartze (1851-1918), een gedenkboek’, Amsterdam 1923, ill. p. 43. -Kasper Niehaus ‘Thérèse Schwartze, Geen lege jassen en japonnen‘, written for the exhibition in Amsterdam, Arti et Amicitiae, ‘Herdenkings-tentoonstelling, portretten van tijdgenoten door Thérèse Schwartze’, 1952, with ill. -Cora Hollema and Pieternel Kouwenhoven, ‘Thérèse Schwartze (1851-1918), een vorstelijk portrettiste’, Zutphen 1998, ill. p. 32. -Cora Hollema, ‘Thérèse Schwartze (1851-1918), haar klant was koning’, Zutphen 2010, ill. p. 28. -Wendy van Lith and Ileen Montijn, ‘Thérèse Schwartze (1851-1918), De Nederlandse fine fleur geportretteerd’, Zwolle 2011, ill. p. 19. -Cora Hollema, Pieternel Kouwenhoven‚ ’Thérèse Schwartze, Painting for a Living‘, Amsterdam 2015, ill. p. 35 (1st English edition, revised version of the Dutch edition from 2010). -Cora Hollema, Pieternel Kouwenhoven‚ Thérèse Schwartze Painting for a Living‘, Amsterdam 2021, ill. p. 19 (this 2nd revised English edition will be published in September 2021). Provenance: -Collection of the artist and her family, Prinsengracht 1091, Amsterdam; the ownership has stayed in the artist’s and sitters' family ever since: -Collection Mejuffrouw G. Schwartze, Amsterdam (according to a label attached to the reverse). Georgina Schwartze, a younger sister of Thérèse, lived at the Herengracht till her dead in 1935. -Collection Mr. Henri Knap, Amstelveen, son of Letty Ansingh. -Private colletion of Mrs. Wiesje Knap, USA, granddaughter of Letty Ansingh. The Amsterdam painter Thérèse Schwartze (1851-1918) was a celebrated portraitist in her time, who combined great talent and technical expertise with a superb head for business. She produced likenesses of the 19th-century Dutch beau monde and members of the royal family in an un-Dutch allure and became a millionaire in the process. Of crucial importance to her career were the upbringing and training she received from her father, the painter Johann Georg Schwartze (1814-1874) who had studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf until 1842. His family background was a history of migrants who built up new live