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Dorothea Maria Henrietta Merian

Portrait
Name:Dorothea Maria Henrietta Merian
Name variants:Graff / Gsell
Gender:female
Born:Neurenberg
Died:Sint Petersburg
Father:Johann Andreas Graff (1636 - 1701)
Mother:Maria Sybilla Merian (1647 - 1717)

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Attributes

Category Attribute Value Date startDate end
Subject of painting Dierenvlinders
Subject of painting Stillevenstillevens

References

External biographical records

Primary sources

  1. Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Amsterdam: DTB-registers (toegangsnummer 5001), 533: 309 & 702: 341

Secondary sources

  1. Groenendijk, Pieter, Beknopt biografisch lexicon van Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse schilders, graveurs, glasschilders, tapijtwevers et cetera van ca. 1350 tot ca. 1720, Leiden: Primavera (2008)
  2. Thieme, Ulrich & Becker, Felix, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Band 15, Leipzig: Engelmann (1922)
  3. Molhuysen, P.C., Blok, P.J., Knappert, L. & Kossmann, F.K.H. (eds.) Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek (10 vols.), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff (1911-1937), volume 9: 309-310
  4. De Beer, Astrid, 'Graff, Dorothea Maria Henriette (1678-1743)', in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland, . <URL: http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/GraffDorothea>
  5. Van der Willigen, Adriaan & Meijer, Fred G., A dictionary of Dutch and Flemish still-life painters working in oils, 1525-1725, Leiden: Primavera Press (2003)