Margaretha van Bancken | |
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 Portrait of Margaretha van Bancken, detail of double portrait by Jan de Bray | |
| Born | 1628 |
| Died | 1694 |
| Nationality | Dutch |
Margaretha van Bancken (Amsterdam 1628 - Haarlem 1694) was a Dutch publisher from Haarlem.
Margaretha van Bancken | |
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| Portrait of Margaretha van Bancken, detail of double portrait by Jan de Bray | |
| Born | 1628 |
| Died | 1694 |
| Nationality | Dutch |
Margaretha van Bancken (Amsterdam 1628 - Haarlem 1694) was a Dutch publisher from Haarlem.
She was the daughter of Dirck van Bancken and Anna Noppen. [1] She married the city printer on 19 April 1661, Abraham Casteleyn . [2] Their son, Gerard Casteleyn continued their work as publishers in the centrally located house "In de Blije Druck" on the main square Grote Markt, Haarlem. Most of their printing commissions came from the city hall across the square, but they also ran the newspaper called Opregte Haarlemsche Courant . The painter Jan de Bray painted their double portrait sitting with clasped hands under a bust of Laurens Janszoon Coster, the Haarlem inventor of the printing press.
After her husband died she married Frederik van Vliet on 15 Sept. 1682 but continued to print works under her own name. [1]
Laurens Janszoon Coster, or Laurens Jansz Koster, is the purported inventor of a printing press from Haarlem. He allegedly invented printing simultaneously with Johannes Gutenberg and was regarded by some in the Netherlands well into the 20th century as having invented printing first.
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Portrait of Abraham Casteleyn and his Wife, Margaretha van Bancken (1663) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Jan de Bray; it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the Rijksmuseum.
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