Margaretha Haverman (bapt. 28 October 1693 – after 1739)
• Was an 18th-century flower painter from the Northern Netherlands. • She was born in Breda as the daughter of Daniël Haverman, a captain in the Danish army who settled in Amsterdam. • Her work is regularly mentioned in estate inventories, today only two signed flower paintings by her are known. • A Vase of Flowers, 1716 is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the other in the Statens Museum for Kunst. • Margaretha Haverman married 25 July 1721 the architect Jacques de Mondoteguy in Amsterdam. • With Jacques she moved to Paris, where she was accepted as a member in the Academie the next year. • In 1723 she was thrown out after claims that her acceptance work was in fact the work of her former master Van Huysum. • Next
Margaretha Haverman, A Vase of Flowers, 1716
Original, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Visited in 2017-2023.