16th-century women artists - female painters, miniaturists, manuscript illuminators, calligraphers, engravers and sculptors born between 1500 and 1600.
16th-century women artists - female painters, miniaturists, manuscript illuminators, calligraphers, engravers and sculptors born between 1500 and 1600.
Flemish females at Tudor court [5] :
Levina Teerlinc was a Flemish Renaissance miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. She was the most important miniaturist at the English court between Hans Holbein the Younger and Nicholas Hilliard. Her father, Simon Bening, was a renowned book illuminator and miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school and probably trained her as a manuscript painter. She may have worked in her father's workshop before her marriage.
Mayken Verhulst, also known as Marie Bessemers, was a sixteenth-century miniature, tempera and watercolor painter, identified by Lodovico Guicciardini in 1567 as one of the four most important female artists in the Low Countries. She was actively engaged in the workshop of her husband, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, posthumously publishing his works. While she is recognized as an exceptionally skilled artist, little is known about her works or life as there are few surviving attributable sources of information.
Louise Juliana of Orange-Nassau was a countess consort of the Palatinate by marriage to Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, and took part in the regency government of her son between 1610 and 1614. She also acted as a mediator between the king of Sweden and the elector of Brandenburg in 1631.
Henriette Catherine of Nassau was princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau by marriage to John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and regent of Anhalt-Dessau from 1693 to 1698 during the minority of her son Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau.
Susanna van Lee was a Dutch stage actor and ballet dancer.
Dorotea van Fornenbergh, was a Dutch stage actor.
Jacomina de Witte was the central figure in a famous corruption case in the Netherlands in 1649.
Elisabeth Wandscherer was a Dutch Anabaptist.
Susanna du Plessis (1739–1795) was a plantation owner in Dutch Surinam. She is a legendary figure in the history of Surinam, where she probably unjustely has become a metaphor of a cruel and sadistic slave owner. She is the subject of songs, plays, fairy tales and legends as well as books.
Cornelia van Nijenroode was a Dutch merchant in the Dutch East Indies, famous for her conflict with her second husband.
Béatrix de Cusance, Baroness of Belvoir, was the second wife of Charles IV, former reigning Duke of Lorraine. She was a correspondent of Constantijn Huygens.
Princess Frederica Louise Wilhelmina of Orange-Nassau was a Hereditary Princess of Brunswick; married 14 October 1790 to Hereditary Prince Charles George August of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, son of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. She was known in the family as "Loulou".
Hanna van Recklinghausen, was a banker in Lochem in the Netherlands. She is the earliest woman merchant known by name in the Netherlands.
Francisca Duarte was a Portuguese singer. She was active as a court singer at the court of the governor in the Spanish Netherlands.
Catharina Johanna Koek (1763–1843), was a Dutch governor's wife. She is depicted in history as a typical example of the Dutch colonial customs in Dutch East Indies and how it was viewed by Europeans.
Cornelia van Lalaing, was a Dutch noblewoman, famous for the role she played in the so-called "Rennenberg Treason" in 1579 during the Eighty Year's War.
Hermanna Molkenboer-Trip (1851–1911), was a Dutch industrialist.
Catharina Petit (1660–1740) was a Dutch stage actor.