Mayken Verhulst
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Mayken Verhulst (Mechelen, 1518 - Mechelen, 1599) was a sixteenth-century miniature, tempera and watercolor painter, identified by Lodovico Guicciardini in 1567 as one of the most important female artists in the Low Countries.
[edit] Life
Mayken Verhulst was the second wife of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, mother-in-law of Pieter Brueghel the Elder and, according to Karel van Mander, the first teacher of her grandsons Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder. No works survive that can be securely attributed to her, although she is frequently identified as the person behind several works assigned to the Master of the Brunswick Monogram.[1] She might also have been the author of a painting in the Kunsthaus Zürich with a self portrait with her husband (panel, 50.5 x 59 cm).[2] Following Pieter Coecke's death, she likely oversaw the publication of a large woodcut series Ces Moeurs et Fachons de Faire des Turcz (The Turkish Manners of an Artistic Lady) (1553).[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Bergmans, passim. This is mentioned by most subsequent studies about Verhulst, although always with conditions.
- ^ King, p. 394
- ^ Op de Beeck, passim.
[edit] Sources
- Bergmans, Simone. "Le Problème de Jan van Hemessen, monogrammatiste de Brunswick," in Revue belge d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art, vol. 24, 1955, pp. 133–57.
- King, Catherine. "Looking a Sight: Sixteenth-Century Portraits of Woman Artists," in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 58, 1995, pp. 381-406.
- Op de Beeck, Jan, Mayken Verhulst (1518-1599). The Turkish Manners of an Artistic Lady. Mechelen: Museum Het Zotte Kunstkabinet, 2005. ISBN 90-9019982-9.
