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Margaretha Haverman (bapt.
Margaretha Haverman was an 18th-century flower painter from the Dutch Republic.
We don't know much about the life of Margareta Haverman, painter of “A Vase of Flowers” (1716), but what we do know is fascinating.

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Margaretha Haverman (baptized October 28, 1693-died after 1739) was an 18th-century Dutch painter of fruit and flower still lifes. Only two paintings are firmly attributed to her today.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaretha_Haverman

Flowers by Margareta Haverman
c.1722-1739 / Oil on canvas / 22-1/3″x18-3/4″ / Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

Download “Margareta Haverman, A Vase of Flowers: An Innovative Artist Reexamined”: Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 54 (2019) here:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/AlbertsonCentenoEaker_Metropolitan_Museum_Journal_v_54_2019

Further reading:
HAVERMAN, Margaretha (28-10-1693-na 1739) translated by Google: https://bit.ly/2ZBdNFW
https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/collection-insights/2018/margareta-haverman-vase-of-flowers-conservation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vase_of_Flowers_(1716)

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Margareta Haverman, “A Vase of Flowers” (1716), oil on wood (image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

We don’t know much about the life of Margareta Haverman, painter of “A Vase of Flowers” (1716), but what we do know is fascinating. The Dutch still life painter was apprenticed to Jan van Huysum, who famously didn’t take on pupils, but was coaxed into it by Haverman’s father. Despite her skill, or perhaps because of it, Haverman brushed up against the ego of her teacher, and he forced her out of his tutelage under circumstances that would have filled gossip blogs 300 years later. She later enrolled in the influential Académie Royale in Paris only to be expelled, likely under suspicion that her work was in fact Van Huysum’s. Today, only two signed Haverman paintings remain, with a small number attributed to her over the centuries that followed.

Nonetheless, her work made a tremendous impact. “A Vase of Flowers” hangs in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it has been a part of the museum’s collection since its earliest days in 1871. The painting will be the s

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Margaretha Haverman

Dutch artist (1693–after 1739)

Margaretha Haverman (bapt. 28 October 1693 – after 1739) was an 18th-century flower painter from the Dutch Republic.

Biography

She was born in Breda as the daughter of Daniël Haverman, a captain in the Danish army who settled in Amsterdam to become director of a boys' school there.^[1]

In the 20 page biography of Jan van Huysum written by Jan van Gool, the only woman he mentioned is Haverman who Van Gool claimed had been allowed to become Van Huysum's only pupil.^[2] Van Huysum later believed she became his pupil under false pretenses and that he had been "sweet-talked" into taking her on by her father the schoolmaster.^[2] Haverman became an embarrassment to Van Huysum when she was admitted to the prestigious Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1722, because she began to sell her works and he was very defensive of his own public image and he was afraid her clever copies would bring him discredit.^[2] This story indicates that Van Huysum was willing to let his fe