Coba Surie

Dutch painter Coba Surie studied in Amsterdam at the Rijksakademie. She was a watercolor painter, printmaker, draftsman and lithographer. She mostly painted still lifes and belonged to the Amsterdamse Joffers, a women-only art movement, who were a group of Dutch impressionists of the 19th and 20th century. She was also a member of the artists’ guilds Arti et Amicitiae and Sint Lucas in Amsterdam. In 1913 she was awarded the Willink van Collen prize and in 1929 a gold medal by Queen Wilhelmina.

An image of her entry Hockey player is included in the catalog of art competitions. This painting found no mercy in “Sport in Beeld”: “And when a little later you stand before Jacoba Surie’s Hockey Player, you will indeed feel sorry for the game of field hockey.”