Maria Elisabeth Georgina "Lizzy" Ansingh was a Dutch painter.
Background
Lizzy Ansingh was born in Utrecht. She was the daughter of Edzard Willem Ansingh, a pharmacist, and the painter Clara Theresia Schwartze. She was the granddaughter of Johann Georg Schwartze, also a painter, and a niece of the painter Thérèse Schwartze.
Career
She belonged to a group of female post-impressionist painters influenced by the Amsterdam Impressionism movement called the Amsterdamse Joffers. She died in Amsterdam on 14 December 1959. During the years 1894–1897 Lizzy studied at the Amsterdam Royal Academy of Visual Arts.
Here she studied with the professors August Allebé, Nicolaas van der Waay and Carel Dake.
The importance of the Amsterdamse Joffers lies primarily in functioning as role models for younger female painters in the Netherlands, especially during and after the 1970s. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
Membership
She was also a member of the (still existing) Amsterdam art circles Arti et Amicitiae and Sint Lucas.