Christina Houbraken (c. 1695–1760s) was an 18th-century artist from the

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Biography

She was born in

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as the fourth of ten children of

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch people, Dutch Painting, painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadt ...

.Christina Houbraken
in

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In 1724 she married the painter

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, where the couple both lived. They had three daughters, of whom

Christina Maria Elliger Christina Maria Elliger (23 September 1731 – 6 March 1802) was an 18th-century artist from the Dutch Republic. Biography Christina Maria Elliger was born in Amsterdam as the daughter of Anthony Elliger and Christina Houbraken, a daughter ...

became a notable pastel artist. Her death date is not certain, but by 1773 her husband was living in

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and there is no mention of her there or after that when he moved to Ede. Though, like her siblings

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and Antonina, she was an artist, none of her works are known to have survived.

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1690s births 1760s deaths 18th-century Dutch artists Artists from Amsterdam Dutch women artists {{Netherlands-artist-stub