page_title: Antonina Houbraken
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Antonina Houbraken / Work
context_page_description: Antonina Houbraken was an 18th-century Dutch draughtswoman who is known for her many topographical drawings of Dutch sites. She also drew landscapes. She is recorded as a skilled portraitist.
context_section_description: Houbraken assisted both her father and her brother Jacob with making designs for the prints that were included in her father's book on Netherlandish painters, The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters.  She also provided designs for other print projects of her brother as well as of others such as Pieter Tanjé.
  Antonina was responsible for many of the topographical drawings for the albums of Andries and Gerrit Schoemaker, collectors of topographical prints and drawings. Her husband followed her style of drawing.  It has only recently been discovered that many drawings previously attributed to her husband that are part of the collection Schoemaker are actually her work.  The works signed with J.S. are now attributed to Antonina and those signed with J:St. to her husband.  Whereas it is believed her husband did not make any outdoor drawings but mainly copied after others' works, Antonina is known to have made on-site drawings.  Her drawings are regarded as more precise and detailed as those of her husband and typically include human figures.
  Three portrait drawings attributed to her are kept in the Amsterdam City Archives.  It includes a Portrait of Mr. Joan Corver (1628–1716), Alderman and Mayor of Amsterdam dated to 1715.
  Various museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen hold drawings attributed to her in their collections.
caption: Fantasy landscape
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