Jeanne Vergouwen - two young boys dressed up as knights 1668

Johanna Vergouwen (also: Jeanne Vergouwen or Joanna Vergouwen) (1630 in Antwerp – 11 March 1714 in Antwerp) was a

Flemish Baroque painter Flemish Baroque painting refers to the art produced in the Southern Netherlands during Spanish control in the 16th and 17th centuries. The period roughly begins when the Dutch Republic was split from the Habsburg Spain regions to the south with ...

and copyist.

Life

She was brought up in a family of painters.Jeanne Vergouwen
at the

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She was the daughter of the Flemish painter-decorator Louis Vergouwen (died 1659) and his wife Maaike Verwerff, who was the daughter of the painter Hans Verwerff. Her sister Maria (died 1664) married the painter Michael Angelo Immenraet in 1661. Immenraet and Joanna Vergouwen engaged in extensive litigation regarding her sister's inheritance. She studied with Balthazar van den Bossche and Lucas van Uden. She was active as a painter, copyist and art dealer. The 17th century Flemish biographer

Cornelis de Bie Cornelis de Bie (10 February 1627 – ) was a Flemish ''rederijker'', poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier. He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies. He is known internationally today for his biographical sketches of Flemish a ...

refers to her in his Het Gulden Cabinet in the chapter on noteworthy female painters. He describes her as a copyist of Anthony van Dyck and Rubens.

Works

* ''Portrait of Andries Rademaker, Notary, Displaying a Statuette'', oil on panel, 1656, Rhode Island School of Design Museum. * ''A double portrait of two boys, full-length, dressed as knights, one holding a flute, the other on a hobby-horse holding a whip, both standing on a balcony'', oil on canvas, 1668, Christie's Amsterdam, sold 6 May 2008 for €120,250, lot nr. 180A double portrait of two boys, full-length, dressed as knights, one holding a flute, the other on a hobby-horse holding a whip, both standing on a balcony
– The boys are believed to be Hendrick & Everard Kochman, sons of Herman Franciscus Kochman, the mayor of

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. * ''Samson and Delilah'', 1673, copy of a picture by Anthony van Dyck, Mexico, Museo Nacional de San Carlo.

Bibliography

E. Duverger, "The Antwerp painter Joanna Vergouwen (1630–1714)" ''Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten'', Antwerp, 2000.

References

1630 births 1714 deaths Flemish Baroque painters Flemish portrait painters Flemish printmakers Flemish women painters Artists from Antwerp Art copyists 17th-century women artists Women printmakers {{Flemish-painter-stub