"Although the wife of a famous marine painter, she does not want to be regarded as Mrs. Mesdag in the arts, but as an autonomous female artist, following her own path.."
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the publication was on the occasion of her 70th birthday, and Groningen was her birth-place!
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Sina Mesdag-van Houten
Sientje Mesdag van Houten (23 December 1834 Groningen – 20 March 1909 The Hague) was a painter of landscapes and later many still-lifes; she was the wife of Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch marine painter of the Hague School.
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