Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt
Painter from Germany
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| Intro | Painter from Germany | |
| A.K.A. | Old Schweickhardt Heinrich Wilhelm Scweichardt Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickbardt Heinrich Wilhelm Schickhardt Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhaadts Heinrich Wilhelm Swichart | |
| A.K.A. | Old Schweickhardt Heinrich Wilhelm Scweichardt Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickbardt Heinrich Wilhelm Schickhardt Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhaadts Heinrich Wilhelm Swichart | |
| Places | Germany | |
| was | Painter | |
| Work field | Arts | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1747 | |
| Death | 1 January 1797London (aged 50 years) |
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Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt (1747–1797), was an 18th-century painter from Germany.
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He was born in Hamm and moved to The Hague where he became a pupil of Hieronymus Lapis and started a family. He moved to London in 1786 for economic reasons and did quite well there. His daughter Katharina learned to draw and paint and became a poet; she married Willem Bilderdijk after having an affair with him in 1795 when he taught her and her sisters in London.
Schweickhardt died in London.