"Nothing special is happening here in the paintersworld [of the Netherlands]; everything stays firmly the same. (translation, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"

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DesignersPainters from the NetherlandsPeople from The HagueWomen from the Netherlands
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version in original Dutch / citaat van Jacoba van Heemskerck, in het Nederlands: Hier valt in de schilderswereld weinig bizonders voor; alles blijft soliede bij het oude. — letter to , 9 March 1913; RKD-Archive, The Hague; as cited by Arend H. Huussen Jr. in Jacoba van Heemskerck, kunstenares van het Expressionisme (= Woman-artist in Expressionism), Haags Gemeentemuseum The Hague, 1982, p. 7