Cornelia van Marle (1661–1698), was a

Dutch Golden Age The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...

painter.

Biography

She was born in

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as the daughter of the beer brewer Herman van Marle and his wife Lamberta Holt. After her father died her mother married another brewer, Geurt Greve, and he merged his business with Van Marle's at the brewery "De Gouden Kroon", located in the Voorstraat (behind the Vrouwenhuis on a street parallel to the Melkmarkt). Their daughter Aleida became Cornelia's half-sister.Aleida Greve
in

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Along with her younger half-sister and two cousins, she became a pupil of the Dordrecht painter

Wilhelmus Beurs Wilhelmus Beurs (1656–1700) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Beurs was born in Dordrecht. According to Houbraken, he was the son of a shoemaker and a quick study who was able to produce a good landscape after only a year's instruc ...

in 1686.Cornelia van Marle
in the

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Beurs recognized their ability and dedicated his book to them in 1692. All four women made large panels under the instruction of Beurs in 1686, and all four of these hang in the regent's room of the Vrouwenhuis in Zwolle today.

References

*''De groote waereld in 't kleen geschildert, of schilderagtigtafereel van 's weerelds schilderyen, kortelijk vervat in sesboeken, verklarende de hooftverwen, haare verscheidemengelingen in oly, en der zelver gebruik'', by Wilhelmus Beurs, 1692, Amsterdam *''Vrouwen En Kunst in de Republiek: Een Overzicht'', p. 55, by Els Kloek, Catherine Peters Sengers, Esther Tobé, 1998, Hilversum, {{DEFAULTSORT:Marle, Cornelia van 1661 births 1699 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters People from Zwolle Dutch women painters 17th-century Dutch women artists