title: Lizzy Schouten
text: # Lizzy Schouten
  
  Catherina Elisabeth Schouten (1887–1967) was a Dutch painter.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Schouten was born on 28 April 1877 in Amsterdam. She studied at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts) in Amsterdam. Her teachers included Carel Lodewijk Dake [nl], Pieter Dupont [nl], Bart van Hove and Nicolaas van der Waay. Her work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. She was a member of the Arti et Amicitiae, Kunstenaarsvereniging Sint Lucas [nl], and the Kunstenaarsvereniging Laren-Blaricum [nl].
  
  In 1910 Schouten married fellow artist Co Breman (1865–1938). Soon after their marriage the couple spent two years in Italy. Schouten died on 21 October 1967 in Laren, North Holland.
  
  