Catherine Engelhart

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Catherine Engelhart , later Cathinca Amyot (born February 6, 1845 in Copenhagen , † 1926 in Sèvres ), was a Danish painter.

Life

Caroline Catherine "Cathinca" Engelhart was born in Copenhagen . She was the daughter of Christian Engelhart (1811–1890), the head of the National Bank, and his wife Nathalie, née Rønne. From 1865 to 1866 she studied painting with Carl Bøgh . In search of the most preferable school for painting and with the wish to go abroad, she visited her role model, the Swedish artist Sofie Ribbing , in her studio in Christiansborg Palace and asked her for advice. She was a student of Louis Gallait and Karl Ferdinand's son .

So it happened that Cathinca Engelhart went to Brussels in 1867 and followed the call of the Düsseldorf School of Painting in the same year . In Düsseldorf she was, with interruptions, a student of Benjamin Vautier and Wilhelm Sohn until 1874 . At the same time she was the companion of the mother of Richard Sohn and Karl Rudolf Sohn , a née Emilie Auguste von Mülmann , and lived in the Son's house on Klosterstrasse.

In 1875 King Oskar II commissioned her with the portrait of Charles XIV. John of the Swedish royal family Bernadotte , so that she stayed in Stockholm for some time . In 1876 she completed her studies with William Adolphe Bouguereau in Paris and was one of his best students.

As a cosmopolitan, Cathinca Engelhart stayed in other cities in Europe until she married the English doctor Thomas Howes Edward Amyot (1850-1903) in Paris in May 1878 and moved with him to Diss in the county of Norfolk . The marriage had three children: Thomas (* 1879), Catherine (* 1880) and Noel (* 1882). From 1882, Cathinca Engelhart-Amyot and family settled in London . She mainly painted portraits of girls and women, commissioned, as well as genre pictures in the popular taste of the time, so-called salon art. At the Salon de Paris as well as in Great Britain , where she exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts between 1879 and 1890, she received much recognition for her paintings. In her final years she lived in Sèvres near Paris until her death in 1926.

Works (selection)

Charles XIV. John of Sweden
  • Portrait of her sister (1870)
  • Portrait of Charles XIV John of Sweden (1875)
  • Child Holding in the Arm a Buffoon (1876)
  • A special treat (1887)
  • Daydreams
  • Parisian Soiree
  • To Armfull Of Mischief
  • After the bath
  • Young Woman Holding Flowers in her Arms (1899)
  • La soirée parisienne (1904)

literature

Web links

Commons : Catherine Engelhart Amyot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cathinca Amyot: In Search Of My “Goddess.” In: The Wide World Magazine , 1899, pp. 517 ff.  - Internet Archive Cathinca Engelhart reports on her visit to Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  2. ^ Engelhard, painter, Klosterstrasse 23 , address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1872
  3. ^ Caroline Cathinca Engelhart: The Portrait of King Carl Johan , in The Royal House of Norway
  4. ↑ Engelhart, Cathinca (Caroline Catherina; married Amyot). In: Saur general artist dictionary . Volume 33. Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-22773-6 , p. 41.
  5. ↑ Portrait of the sister: Laura Andrea Jeanette Engelhart  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / frankandsonltd.com  
personal data
SURNAME Engelhart, Catherine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelhart, Caroline Catherine Cathinca; Engelhart Amyot, Caroline Catherina; Amyot, Cathinca; Amyot, Caroline Catherina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH 1926
Place of death Sèvres