The Miniaturist was inspired by a woman of what nationality?
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The Miniaturist The Miniaturist is the 2014 debut novel of English actress and author Jessie Burton. An international bestseller, it was the focus of a publishers bidding war at the 2013 London Book Fair. Set in Amsterdam in 1686/7, the novel was inspired by Petronella Oortman's doll's house on display at the Rijksmuseum. It does not otherwise attempt to be a biographical novel.
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Petronella Oortman Petronella Oortman (1656–1716) was a Dutch woman whose elaborate dollhouse is part of the permanent collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Her dollhouse was the inspiration for the 2014 novel "The Miniaturist" by Jessie Burton.
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Nancy Elizabeth Prophet Nancy Elizabeth Prophet (March 19, 1890 – December 13, 1960) was an American sculptor. She became noted for her work in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. A perfectionist who did all her own carving, her surviving output is small.
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Germaine Dulac Germaine Dulac (] ; born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic. She was born in Amiens and moved to Paris in early childhood. A few years after her marriage she embarked on a journalistic career in a feminist magazine, and later became interested in film. With the help of her husband and friend she founded a film company and directed a few commercial works before slowly moving into Impressionist and Surrealist territory. She is best known today for her Impressionist film, "La Souriante Madame Beudet" ("The Smiling Madam Beudet", 1922/23), and her Surrealist experiment, "La Coquille et le Clergyman" ("The Seashell and the Clergyman", 1928). Her career as filmmaker suffered after the introduction of sound film and she spent the last decade of her life working on newsreels for Pathé and Gaumont.
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Amy Otis Mary Amy Otis (1863–1950) was an American miniaturist.
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Jean Muir Jean Elizabeth Muir, , FCSD (17 July 1928 – 28 May 1995) was a British fashion designer (though she herself preferred to be called a dressmaker).
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Valentine de Saint-Point Valentine de Saint-Point (born Anna Jeanne Valentine Marianne Glans de Cessiat-Vercell; 16 February 1875, Lyon - died 28 March 1953, Cairo), was a woman of letters and a French artist. She was a writer, poet, painter, playwright, art critic, choreographer, lecturer and journalist. She is primarily known for being the first woman to have written a futurist manifesto, but was also active in Parisian salons, and the associated literary and artistic movements of the Belle Epoque. Her writings and performances of "La Métachorie", which demonstrated her theory of "a total fusion of the arts." The later period of her life was dominated by the politics of the Middle East and North Africa.
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Madeleine Castaing Madeleine Castaing (] ) (1894–1992) was a French antique dealer and interior designer of international renown. She was the friend and the sponsor of many artists, including Soutine, who made her portrait in 1928. Original, even whimsical, she revolutionized the world of decoration, creating the "style Castaing" which is now a reference.
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Blanche Lazzell Blanche Lazzell (October 10, 1878 – June 1, 1956) was an American painter, printmaker and designer. Known especially for her white-line woodcuts, she was an early modernist American artist, bringing elements of Cubism and abstraction into her art.
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Caroline Bardua Caroline Bardua (also Karoline Bardua; 11 November 1781 in Ballenstedt – 2 June 1864) was a German painter. She was one of the first middle-class women who was able to create an existence for herself as an independent artist.
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Anna Blunden Anna Blunden (22 December 1829 – 1915) was an English, pre-Raphaelite artist, and a member of John Ruskin's circle. She was one of a number of women artists working and exhibiting during the Victorian age. Her best known work is "The Seamstress" (c.1854), a piece inspired by Thomas Hood’s poem of the same name. Starting her career with oil painting, Blunden eventually moves onto watercolor landscapes that make up a large portion of her body of work. Her work was regularly showcased in the Royal Academy and the Society of British Arts from 1854 to 1867, as well as the Birmingham Society of Artists.
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Maria Zambaco Maria Zambaco (29 April 1843, London – 14 July 1914, Paris), born Marie Terpsithea Cassavetti (Greek: Μαρία Τερψιθέα Κασσαβέτη , sometimes spelled Maria Tepsithia Kassavetti or referred to as Mary), was a British artist and model of Greek descent. She was favoured by the Pre-Raphaelites.
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Sophie Brzeska Sophie Suzanne Brzeska or Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska (1873–1925) was a Polish writer and artistic muse most noted for being the companion of sculptor/artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (a man half her age).
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Liliane Lijn Liliane Lijn (born 22 December 1939), is an American-born artist who was the first woman artist to work with kinetic text ("Poem Machines"), exploring both light and text as early as 1962. She has lived in London since 1966.
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Dora Montefiore Dorothy (Dora) Frances Montefiore (née Fuller) (20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933) was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer.
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Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (] ; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.
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Renée Gauthier Renée Gauthier was one of the earliest women to be involved in surrealism.
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Anna Maria Hilfeling Anna Maria Hilfening, née Lange (21 April 1713 – 26 May 1783), was a Swedish artist, a portrait miniaturist.
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Phoebe Anna Traquair Phoebe Anna Traquair ( ; 24 May 1852 – 4 August 1936) was an Irish-born artist, who achieved international recognition for her role in the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland, as an illustrator, painter and embroiderer. Her works included large-scale murals, embroidery, enamel jewellery and book illuminations. In 1920 she became the first woman elected to the Royal Scottish Academy.
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Gillian Ayres Gillian Ayres, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 3 February 1930) is a Turner Prize nominated English painter. She is best known for abstract painting and printmaking using vibrant colours.
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Helena Rubinstein Helena Rubinstein (born Chaja Rubinstein; December 25, 1872 – April 1, 1965) was a Polish American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist. A cosmetics entrepreneur, she was the founder and eponym of "Helena Rubinstein Incorporated" cosmetics company, which made her one of the world's richest women.
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Violet Oakley Violet Oakley (June 10, 1874 – February 25, 1961) was an American artist and the first American woman to receive a public mural commission. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, she was renowned as a pathbreaker in mural decoration, a field that had been exclusively practiced by men. Oakley excelled at murals and stained glass designs that addressed themes from history and literature in Renaissance-revival styles.