Pauline Suij


Pauline Suij was an artist who attended the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. She belongs to the 2nd generation of the Hague School and Amsterdam Impressionism. She was a member of the 2nd row of these two Dutch movements of Impressionism.

Life and work

At the age of 23 she had already begun to work as a painter. Four years later she was admitted to the ladies class of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. There she studied from 1882 until 1884. In Amsterdam she was a private pupil of Hendrik Johannes Havermann, John Gijsbert Vogel and Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller.
Until 1889, she had a studio in Amersfoort. Then she went to Amsterdam. Her work was influenced by the environment of the school of Allebé and the flow of the Amsterdam Impressionism and her private lessons. Her genre was landscape painting, and although the city face. From the aspiring, prosperous metropolis Amsterdam substantial influence went on many young painters. The motives were almost inexhaustible. She used the art of drawing and oil painting.
She was a member of the Art Society Arti et Amicitiae.

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