Charlotte Pothuis

Charlotte Pothuis was a Dutch painter.

Biography

Pothuis was born on 1 April 1867 in London, England. She studied at the in Amsterdam. She also received instruction from Henriëtte Asscher, Meijer de Haan, Wilhelmina Cornelia Kerlen, Bartol Wilhelm van Laar, and Jan Zürcher. In 1891 she married fellow artist Karel Alexander August Jan Boom. She was a member of the Vereeniging Sint Lucas Amsterdam and the Arti et Amicitiae artist's society. Pothuis' work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
In June 1896 she opened a photography studio with her colleague Anna Sluijter. They called their studio Dames Sluijter & Boom and it is considered one of the first woman-owned photography studios in Amsterdam.
Pothuis died on 24 January 1945, in Amsterdam. Her work is in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.