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"Self-Portrait at the Easel," Catherina van Hemessen, 1548.
The career of van Hemessen (1528-1565 or later) has a number of unanswered questions; we don't know who taught her (probably her father, himself a painter), where she was born, exactly when she died, or really much about her personal life in general.
Her career, however, was a success, in part because she attracted the patronage of Maria of Austria, the Spanish-born former queen of Hungary who was then serving as the governor of the Netherlands, at the behest of her brother, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. (Complicated!) She painted mostly portraits, with a handful of religious works, and this is the first known portrait of an artist at work, so it has some significance.
She married a church organist in 1554, and seems to have given up painting after that. She and her husband moved to Spain with Maria when she retired from governorship, Catherina received a generous pension when Maria passed away, and they moved to Antwerp in 1561. The last mention of her in records is in 1565, and one source says she died in childbirth in '65 or '68.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Kunstmuseum Basel.
#Art #FlemishRenaissance #CatherinaVanHemessen #WomenArtists #WomenInArt #SelfPortrait #PortraitMonday
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"Self-Portrait at the Easel," Catherina van Hemessen, 1548.
The career of van Hemessen (1528-1565 or later) has a number of unanswered questions; we don't know who taught her (probably her father, himself a painter), where she was born, exactly when she died, or really much about her personal life in general.
Her career, however, was a success, in part because she attracted the patronage of Maria of Austria, the Spanish-born former queen of Hungary who was then serving as the governor of the Netherlands, at the behest of her brother, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. (Complicated!) She painted mostly portraits, with a handful of religious works, and this is the first known portrait of an artist at work, so it has some significance.
She married a church organist in 1554, and seems to have given up painting after that. She and her husband moved to Spain with Maria when she retired from governorship, Catherina received a generous pension when Maria passed away, and they moved to Antwerp in 1561. The last mention of her in records is in 1565, and one source says she died in childbirth in '65 or '68.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Kunstmuseum Basel.
#Art #FlemishRenaissance #CatherinaVanHemessen #WomenArtists #WomenInArt #SelfPortrait #PortraitMonday
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"Self-Portrait at the Easel," Catherina van Hemessen, 1548.
The career of van Hemessen (1528-1565 or later) has a number of unanswered questions; we don't know who taught her (probably her father, himself a painter), where she was born, exactly when she died, or really much about her personal life in general.
Her career, however, was a success, in part because she attracted the patronage of Maria of Austria, the Spanish-born former queen of Hungary who was then serving as the governor of the Netherlands, at the behest of her brother, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. (Complicated!) She painted mostly portraits, with a handful of religious works, and this is the first known portrait of an artist at work, so it has some significance.
She married a church organist in 1554, and seems to have given up painting after that. She and her husband moved to Spain with Maria when she retired from governorship, Catherina received a generous pension when Maria passed away, and they moved to Antwerp in 1561. The last mention of her in records is in 1565, and one source says she died in childbirth in '65 or '68.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Kunstmuseum Basel.
#Art #FlemishRenaissance #CatherinaVanHemessen #WomenArtists #WomenInArt #SelfPortrait #PortraitMonday
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"Self-Portrait at the Easel," Catherina van Hemessen, 1548.
The career of van Hemessen (1528-1565 or later) has a number of unanswered questions; we don't know who taught her (probably her father, himself a painter), where she was born, exactly when she died, or really much about her personal life in general.
Her career, however, was a success, in part because she attracted the patronage of Maria of Austria, the Spanish-born former queen of Hungary who was then serving as the governor of the Netherlands, at the behest of her brother, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. (Complicated!) She painted mostly portraits, with a handful of religious works, and this is the first known portrait of an artist at work, so it has some significance.
She married a church organist in 1554, and seems to have given up painting after that. She and her husband moved to Spain with Maria when she retired from governorship, Catherina received a generous pension when Maria passed away, and they moved to Antwerp in 1561. The last mention of her in records is in 1565, and one source says she died in childbirth in '65 or '68.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Kunstmuseum Basel.
#Art #FlemishRenaissance #CatherinaVanHemessen #WomenArtists #WomenInArt #SelfPortrait #PortraitMonday
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"Self-Portrait at the Easel," Catherina van Hemessen, 1548.
The career of van Hemessen (1528-1565 or later) has a number of unanswered questions; we don't know who taught her (probably her father, himself a painter), where she was born, exactly when she died, or really much about her personal life in general.
Her career, however, was a success, in part because she attracted the patronage of Maria of Austria, the Spanish-born former queen of Hungary who was then serving as the governor of the Netherlands, at the behest of her brother, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. (Complicated!) She painted mostly portraits, with a handful of religious works, and this is the first known portrait of an artist at work, so it has some significance.
She married a church organist in 1554, and seems to have given up painting after that. She and her husband moved to Spain with Maria when she retired from governorship, Catherina received a generous pension when Maria passed away, and they moved to Antwerp in 1561. The last mention of her in records is in 1565, and one source says she died in childbirth in '65 or '68.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Kunstmuseum Basel.
#Art #FlemishRenaissance #CatherinaVanHemessen #WomenArtists #WomenInArt #SelfPortrait #PortraitMonday
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Children's #Games is an oil-on-panel by #FlemishRenaissance artist #PieterBruegeltheElder, painted in 1560. #Art #Painting #OilPainting #ChildrensGames #RetroGames #RetroGaming