Ina Scholten-Van Heek (1868-1944) Dutch, Oil on Canvas Still Life with Flowers. Signed lower right. Van Heek was a member of the Van Heek family of textile manufacturers and a daughter of Herman van Heek (1816-1882) and Gijsberta ter Kuile (1834-1910). She married the manufacturer Jan Fredrik Scholten (1867-1943) in 1891. Van Heek was trained at the Haarlem School of Applied Arts under Martin Monnickendam, she also took lessons from Eduard Frankfort and learned watercolour painting from Hendrik Maarten Krabbé. She painted genre scenes, landscapes and still lifes, among other subjects. The painter was a member of the artists' association Arti et Amicitiae, co-founder (1901) and board member of the Kunstgenootschap in Enschede, and a member of the Twentsche Kunstkring, founded in 1934. She died in 1944 at the age of 75.

Overall Size: 20 x 19 in. 

Sight Size: 13 x 11 in. 

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