1. Betsy Westendorp-Osieck was a Dutch painter, watercolourist, etcher, pastelist and draftsman who was part of the Amsterdamse Joffers painting group.
17 Facts About Betsy Westendorp-Osieck
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck was one of a family of five, but one of them died as a child.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck attended a French secondary school before going to a German boarding school.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck intended becoming a pianist but when that proved improbable she took up art.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck initially studied with the Day Drawing School for Young Ladies in 1898.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck went on to study in Amsterdam at the Teekenschool voor den Werkenden Stand from 1905 to 1910 and at the State Academy of Fine Arts.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck married on 21 June 1917 to Herman Karel Westendorp at which point her name changed.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck's husband was an art collector of Asian art and a banker.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck was a member of Arti et Amicitiae and the St Luke Artists in Amsterdam.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck was a member of the Pulchri Studio in The Hague and the Dutch Watercolors Circle.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck traveled extensively around America, Belgium, Cambodia, Ceylon, Egypt, France and Japan where she made travel sketches.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck's husband published a book in 1933 which included etchings by Westendorp-Osieck.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck won a number of awards, a silver medal for her entry in the DeVrouw Exhibition 1913, the Willink van Collenprijs in 1915, the St Lucas Prize in 1930, and gold medals in 1936 and at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck was unable to exhibit in The Netherlands because she had not joined the Kultuurkamer.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck died on 1 March 1968 at the age of 87 in her hometown Amsterdam.
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Betsy Westendorp-Osieck's work is in the Rijksmuseum and the Centraal Museum in the Netherlands.