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Floris Arntzenius (Surabaya 1864-1925 The Hague)
Lot 265

Floris Arntzenius (Surabaya 1864-1925 The Hague)

Portrait of Frederika Wilhelmina van Wulfften Palthe-Broese van Groenou (1875-1960)

Closed14 May 2014

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Floris Arntzenius (Surabaya 1864-1925 The Hague)
Portrait of Frederika Wilhelmina van Wulfften Palthe-Broese van Groenou (1875-1960)
signed and dated 'Fl. Arntzenius 96.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
116 x 80.3 cm.
Painted in 1896.

Commissioned directly from the artist and thence by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

Frederika joined the Vereniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht (Dutch Association for Woman's Suffrage) in 1908 and would later on become the chairman of the Propaganda Comité voor Vrouwenkiesrecht in The Hague. In 1915 she accompanied Aletta Jacobs (1854-1929) on her journey across Europe to offer European governments the resolutions of the International Congres of Women held in The Hague. Jacobs spend the last year of her life at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. van Wulfften Palthe in The Hague in 1928-29.