Susanna de La Croix (1755–1789) was a
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painter.
De la Croix was baptized on 3 January 1756 in the Oude Waalse Kerk in
Amsterdam
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as Susanne, daughter of French painter Pierre Frédéric de la Croix and Marie Regnier. The family lived alternately in Amsterdam and
The Hague
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. In 1775, she married the painter and
poet
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Jan van Os (1744–1808) in The Hague. From this marriage seven children were born, among whom
Pieter Gerardus (1776–1839),
Maria Margaretha (1780–1862) and
Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os
Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os (20 November 1782 The Hague – 11 July 1861 Paris), was a 19th-century painter from the Netherlands.
Biography
According to the RKD he was a son and pupil of the painters Jan van Os and Susanna de la Croix, a ...
(1782–1861), who also became painters.
De la Croix was probably trained by her father. She made "excellent portraits with black chalk", among other things. Scheen states that she was deaf-mute. It is known that her father was deaf-mute but the assumption that she would also be is probably a mistake following a mention at Van Eynden and Van der Willigen. In their ''Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst'' they write: "Susanna de la Croix, who was the daughter of the painter of that name, who has made herself known through the manufacture of a number of crayon portraits, and who is deaf-mute." The text was later quoted by Kramm, who in turn became the source for Scheen's mention. A portrait of an old woman in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is assigned to Susanna de la Croix, but it is dated a few years after her death.
De la Croix died of
smallpox
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at the age of 33, she was buried in the
Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague.
References
La Croixin
1001 Vrouwen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis
''1001 Vrouwen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis'' is a compilation of 1001 biographies of famous women of the Netherlands spanning roughly 1700 years.
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1756 births
1789 deaths
Artists from The Hague
18th-century Dutch painters
Painters from Amsterdam
18th-century Dutch women painters
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