Dorothea Schwartz Zimmer

Dorothea Schwartz Zimmer was a German painter active around 1800.

Daughter of the painter Johann Christian August Schwartz, Zimmer was married to painter and draughtsman Johann Samuel Zimmer; upon his death she married her cousin, painter Joseph Dantieux. Active in Göttingen, where her first husband taught at the university, she was recorded during her lifetime as a portraitist working in oils and pastel, and to have produced landscapes as well.[1] Another source records that she painted portrait miniatures as well.[2] None of her work is known to survive, but she has been posited as the artist of a head of Samuel Taylor Coleridge dating to c. 1799 and currently attributed to an anonymous artist.[1]

References
  1. Profile in the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.
  2. Leo R. Schidlof (1964). The Miniature in Europe in the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt.


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