Anna de Frey

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Anna Alida de Frey (also: Aletta de Freij or Vrij, Anna Pootmann; * September 1768 ; in Amsterdam ; † 1808 in Mannheim ) was a Dutch draftsman , copyist and painter .

life and work

Portrait of Cunera (Kniertje) van der Cock (1630–1681) by Aletta de Freij (after Frans van Mieris )

Anna Alida de Frey was born in September 1768 as the second of five children to a Roman Catholic family in Amsterdam and was baptized on September 24th in Amsterdam. Her mother was Susanna Helena Goders (1737–1800), her father Gerrit Ludolf de Vrij (1737–1800/04). Together with her younger brother, Johannes Pieter de Frey (born January 1, 1770; † 1834), she received drawing lessons from the Bruges genre painter and copyist Jacobus Johannes Lauwers , whom her sister, two years older, married in 1788. On April 23, 1804 de Frey married in Sloterdijk (Amsterdam) Gerhard Pootmann, who was about the same age and probably came from Duisburg , and moved with him to Mannheim. After moving to Mannheim, nothing further is known about her biographically. She died there in 1808.

De Frey gave drawing lessons and was considered a skilled copyist of works by the painters Jan Steen , Gabriël Metsu and Emanuel de Witte , where she executed genre scenes and interiors as watercolors. Contemporary encyclopedias and biographers ascribed her skill and success; her works can be found in several art collections. The Städelsches Kunstinstitut , the Albertina in Vienna and the Stadtmuseum Danzig are named as museums that have their paintings in their collections , a Staedel catalog from 1835 named a work Two women engaged in sewing and a child from 1786. A few were at auctions also auctioned some of her oil paintings.

Works in public collections

Web links

Commons : Aletta de Freij  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aletta de Freij. In: rkd.nl. RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis, accessed on February 27, 2020 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ Frey, Johannes Pieter de . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 440 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ a b c d e Marloes Huiskamp: Frey, Anna Alida de (1768–1808?). In: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. January 14, 2014, accessed February 27, 2020 (Dutch).
  4. ↑ a b c d Frey, Anna de . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 435-436 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler: Frey, Anna de . In: New general artist lexicon: or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, etc. Volume 4 . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1837.
  6. ↑ Picture rooms. First room - Dutch school . In: Staedel'sches Kunstinstitut (Hrsg.): Directory of the publicly exhibited art objects of the Städelsche Kunstinstitut . Frankfurt am Main 1835, p. 39 ( google.de ).
  7. ↑ Boerenjongen wijzend met de rechterhand, Aletta de Freij, 1778 - 1808. Accessed February 27, 2020 (Dutch).
  8. ↑ Young woman with fish on her plate and obtrusive age (unequal couple). Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  9. ^ Aletta de Freij naar Frans van Mieris (I). Retrieved February 27, 2020 (Dutch).
  10. ↑ Dutch market, a farmer offers a woman a chicken to buy. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Three carousing farmers. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Interior with nursing mother. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Anna de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frey, Anna Alida de (full name); Freij, Aletta de; Vrij, Aletta de; Pootmann, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch draftsman, copyist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH 1808
Place of death Mannheim