Portrait of Christine Stoetz
Person depicted Christine Stoetz (1829-1897)
Artist Hendrik A. Sangster (1825-1901)
Medium Oil on canvas
Year 1899
This portrait of 1899 was presented to the Stadsschouwburg in 1900 by the painter Hendrik A. Sangster, together with the portrait of Mrs Kleine-Gartman. They were numbers 3 and 4 in the portrait gallery. Christine Stoetz was an opera singer and actor, and the mother of the actor Marie van Westerhoven. In 1894, at the age of sixty-five, Stoetz appeared in the premiere of Madame Sans-Gêne that opened the new theatre. Alongside her acting she taught at the Amsterdamse Toneelschool.

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