Anna Folkema

Two Lutheran churches and two Synagogues of Amsterdam

Anna Folkema (22 May 1695 – 8 October 1768), was an 18th-century engraver from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

She was born in Dokkum as the daughter of Johann Jakob Folkema, a goldsmith.^[1] She was the sister of Jacob Folkema.^[1] Their father moved the family to Amsterdam, where they ran a family business of making prints.^[1]

She died in Amsterdam.^[1]

Selected Works

Two children drinking out of a bowl. Folkema Anna 1748. Line.^[2]
Two children and a cat lying on a grassy bank. Folkema Anna 1748. Line.^[2]

References

1 2 3 4 Anna Folkema in the RKD
1 2 Weitenkamf Frank, Grolier Club. Catalogue of a collection of engravings, etchings and lithographs by women : exhibited at the Grolier Club, 29 East Thirty-Second Street, April 12 to 27, 1901., The De Vinne Press, New York, 1901, pg35. OCLC 460464188

Anna Folkema on 1001 Vrouwen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis

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