Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley
{{short description|American artist}}
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| name = Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley
| image = Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley self portrait, 1897.jpg
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| caption = self portrait, 1897
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1860|7|13|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Perth Amboy, New Jersey
| death_date = {{death date and age|1958|2|8|1860|7|13|mf=y}}
| death_place = Rijsoord, Netherlands
| nationality = American
| education = {{ubl|Cooper Union Womens Art School| Art Students League of New York|Académie Julian}}
| field = Painting,
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| spouse = {{marriage|Bastiaan de Koning|1901|1954|end= died in}}
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Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley (1860-1958) was an American painter who emigrated to the Netherlands.{{cite web |title=Hawley, Wilhelmina Douglas (1860-1958) |url=https://data.bibliotheken.nl/doc/thes/p290992761 |website=Koninklijke Bibliotheek |accessdate=25 July 2020}}
Biography
Hawley was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey on July 13, 1860.{{cite web |title=Wilhelmina Douglas de Koning-Hawley |url=https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/96431 |website=RKD |accessdate=25 July 2020 |language=nl}} She studied at the Cooper Union Women's Art School and the Art Students League of New York.{{cite web |title=Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley |url=https://hawleysociety.org/wilhelmina-douglas-hawley/ |website=Society of the Hawley Family, Inc |accessdate=25 July 2020}} In 1892 she traveled to Paris where she studied at the Académie Julian and registered at the Académie Colarossi where she taught watercolour since 1893 as the first female teacher.{{cite book |last1=Murray |first1=Joan |title=Laura Muntz Lyall: Impressions of Women and Childhood |date=2012 |publisher=McGill-Queen`s University Press |location=Montreal & Kingston |page=21|url=http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/amurray%2C+joan/amurray+joan/1%2C1%2C152%2CB/frameset&FF=amurray+joan+1943&86%2C%2C152 |access-date=2021-10-02}} In 1893, she and her friend Laura Muntz (later Lyall) traveled to Rijsoord, in the Netherlands. There she met Bastiaan de Koning (1868-1954) whom she married in 1901.{{cite web |title=Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley |url=https://www.kunstbus.nl/kunst/wilhelmina+douglas+hawley.html |website=Kunstbus |accessdate=25 July 2020 |language=nl}} The couple settled in Rijsoord.
Hawley exhibited work at the National Academy of Design, and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, and the Paris Salon. She was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the New York Watercolor Society, and the Woman's Art Club of New York{{cite web |title=Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley |url=https://www.askart.com/artist_keywords/Wilhelmina_Douglas_Hawley/5023855/Wilhelmina_Douglas_Hawley.aspx |website=AskArt |accessdate=25 July 2020}} She served on the board of the Art Students League of New York.
Hawley died on February 8, 1958, in Rijsoord, Netherlands.
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Category:19th-century American women artists
Category:20th-century American women artists
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