Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt (born Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt; 1747–1797) was an 18th-century painter from Germany.
Biography He was born in Hamm and moved to The Hague where he became a pupil of Hieronymus Lapis and started a family.Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt in the RKD 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.Katharina Schweickhardt in 1001 Vrouwen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis Schweickhardt died in London.
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Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickardt on Artnet