Catharina Hooft
Deceased Person
1618 – 1691
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Who was Catharina Hooft?
Catharina Pietersdr. Hooft was a woman of the Dutch Golden Age. She became famous at a very early age, when she was painted by Frans Hals. At the age of sixteen she married Cornelis de Graeff, nineteen years her senior and the most powerful regent and mayor of Amsterdam. Thus she became first lady of Soestdijk, one of the family's country houses. Catharina Hooft was also a Lady of the High and free Fief of Purmerland and Ilpendam.
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- Born
- Dec 28, 1618
Amsterdam - Spouses
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Lived in
- Amsterdam
- Died
- Sep 30, 1691
Ilpendam
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on July 23, 2013
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