Henriëtte Knip

1821 – 1909

Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Dutch painter and draughtswoman, part of a family of painters, daughter of Josephus Augustus Knip. She was a student of her father, and in her early years she painted mostly landscapes with Brabant motifs. In 1850 she married Teico Ronner and moved to Brussels, where she concentrated primarily on painting anecdotal scenes with dogs and, from 1870 on, exclusively with cats; in these paintings she also paid great attention to the background (e.g. Cat at Play; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum). Her productivity in this genre was enormous. She was the most popular Dutch woman painter of her time and was internationally famous. The Gemeentemuseum in The Hague has a number of her drawings, sketchbooks and paintings. Her son, Alfred Ronner (1852-1901), and daughter, Alice Ronner (1857-1906), were also painters.

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