Marie Collart

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Marie Collart-Henrotin
Born
Marie Collart

(1842-12-05)5 December 1842
Brussels, Belgium
Died8 October 1911(1911-10-08) (aged 68)
Sardinia, Italy
NationalityBelgian
Known forPainting
Spouse(s)
Edmond Henrotin
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(m. 1871)​
Hofstede in Brabant by Marie Collart

Marie Collart-Henrotin (5 December 1842 – 8 October 1911) was a Belgian artist who mainly painted landscapes and animals.[1]

Biography[]

She was born in Brussels. Collart was primarily self-taught as an artist, but benefited from the advice of Alfred Verwee,  [fr] and the art dealer and critic  [nl]. She became a founding member of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts in 1868. In 1870, she won a gold medal at the Salon des artistes français. In 1871, Collart married Edmond Henrotin, an artillery captain; he died in 1894. She became the first women to be named a Chevalier in the Belgian Order of Leopold in 1880. She won gold medals at exhibitions in Ghent (1881), in Paris and in Brussels (1897).[1][2] Collart exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[3]

Collart died at  [it] in Sardinia at the age of 68.[2]

Her work is included in the collections of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp and Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Gubin, Eliane (2006). Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIXe et XXe siècles (in French). pp. 118–19, with errors. ISBN 2873864346.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Marie Collart, 1842-1911 : sa vie, son oeuvre (in French). J.-E. Goossens. 1900.
  3. ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Collart, Marie". Dictionnaire des peintres belges (in French).

External links[]

Media related to Marie Collart-Henrotin at Wikimedia Commons

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