Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits
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Born21 October 1867
Leiden, Netherlands
Died27 January 1941 (aged 73)
Leiden, Netherlands
KnownforIllustration, Painting
Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits | |
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| Born | 21 October 1867 Leiden, Netherlands |
| Died | 27 January 1941 (aged 73) Leiden, Netherlands |
| Known for | Illustration, Painting |
Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits (1867-1941) was a Dutch botanical illustrator.[1]
Pavord Smits was born on 21 October 1867 in Leiden, Netherlands.[2] She attended the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. She studied with Jan Philip Koelman, Willem van der Nat, Timotheus Wilhelmus Ouwerkerk, and Mathilde Frederika Wilhelmina Tonnet.[3] She worked as an illustrator for the journal "Flora Batava" and the Rijksherbarium te Leiden (National Herbarium of the Netherlands).
Pavord Smits died on 27 January 1941, in Leiden.[2]
