Isabelle Cathérine Kindt-van Assche[a] (23 November 1794 – 15 February 1878)[1] was a Belgian landscape painter from Brussels.
She was a pupil of her uncle, Henri Van Assche. In 1828, she married Charles-Léon Kindt.[2][3][4] Her subjects were all taken from the neighbourhood of Brussels.
As early as 1812 and 1813, two of her watercolours were displayed in Ghent and Brussels. She was represented in the exhibitions at Ghent in 1826, 1829 (where she took first prize) and 1835; at Brussels in 1827 and 1842; at Antwerp in 1834, 1837 and 1840; and at Liège in 1836. One of her paintings belongs to the collection in the HaarlemPaviljoen Welgelegen.
Notes
↑Also spelt as Isabel, or Isabella. Surname from husband after marriage comes before maiden name in Dutch.
↑Waters, Clara Erskine Clement (1904). Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. (Public domained.). Houghton, Mifflin. pp.22–.
↑Thieme, Ulrich; Becker, Felix; Willis, Frederick Charles; Hans Vollmer (1908). Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (in German) (Public domained.). W. Engelmann. pp.196–.
↑Biografische Index van de Benelux / Index Biographique des Pays du Bénélux / Biographical Index of the Benelux Countries / Biographischer Index der Benelux-Länder. Walter de Gruyter. 1 January 1996. pp.53, 770. ISBN978-3-11-097714-1.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: C. E. C. Waters, Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. (1904)
External links
Artworks by or after Isabelle Catherine van Asscheat the Art UK site