Marie Henriques

Marie Henriques (Copenhagen, 1866 – Helsingør, 1944) was a Danish painter who worked in landscape, figure and portraiture, and produced watercolours of ancient architecture and sculpture. Born into a wealthy Danish-Jewish family in Copenhagen, she is significant for moving from Realism towards an increasingly Impressionist manner, and for helping to found one of Denmark's early associations of women artists.

She first took private lessons in Denmark, then spent six months in Paris with her father, where she studied under Alfred Stevens, Christian Krohg and Othon Friesz. Back in Copenhagen she entered the women's school newly established at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, studying under Viggo Johansen and graduating in 1893. She travelled widely, to Italy, Spain, North Africa, England, Egypt and elsewhere, but her long stays in Greece between 1910 and 1913 were particularly important, producing watercolours and oils of those journeys.

In 1916 she was a founding member of the Kvindelige Kunstneres Samfund, serving on its board until 1935. Her coloured lithographs and woodcuts depicted Danish and Greek architecture and ancient art, and many of her architectural and archaeological works were acquired by the Department of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of Copenhagen. Her legacy is tied chiefly to her role in supporting women artists of her day.