Background
According to the RKD she was the daughter of Casparis Haanen, and the sister of Adriana Johanna Haanen, George Gilles Haanen and Remigius Adrianus Haanen.
According to the RKD she was the daughter of Casparis Haanen, and the sister of Adriana Johanna Haanen, George Gilles Haanen and Remigius Adrianus Haanen.
She was the mother of George Lourens Kiers and Catharina Isabella Kiers, both of whom also became artists. She is known for her genre paintings, but was also a papercut artist who cut more than a hundred portraits of artists around 1837.
From 1838 she wase an honorary member of the Royal academy of art in Amsterdam (Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten).