Lucie van Dam van Isselt
1871–1949 · Dutch painter of floral still lifes
Lucie van Dam van Isselt (Bergen op Zoom, 1871 – The Hague, 1949), later known as Lucie Ekker after her first marriage, was a Dutch artist best known for her floral paintings. Her output also included portraits, other kinds of still life, genre scenes, and figure and animal subjects.
She trained first at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague, then learned etching and lithography from Auguste Morisot at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Lyon. She travelled through Europe and painted in Belgium, France and Italy. The Flemish neo-impressionist Théo van Rysselberghe was an inspiration to her. She worked in the Zeeland town of Veere, which is why she is counted among the Veerse Joffers. Jan Toorop painted her portrait in 1905. Her paintings are held in several collections, including the Teylers Museum, and her work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
She married twice. In 1892 she wed the painter and mechanical engineer Evert Cornelis Ekker, with whom she had two children; they divorced in 1907. In 1909 she married the art critic Albert Charles Auguste Plasschaert, and that marriage was dissolved in 1921.