Katharina Pepijn or Catharina Pepijn (baptized on 13 February 1619, Antwerp - 12 November 1688, Antwerp) was a Flemish
painter who was known for her
history paintings and
portrait
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this r ...
s.
Life
Very little is known about the life and training of Katharina Pepijn. She was the daughter of
Marten Pepijn and Marie Huybrechts. She likely trained with her father, a prominent painter in Antwerp.
[Catharina Pepyn, Marten’s dochter]
in ''Album der St.-Lukasgilde : uitgegeven op last harer letterkundige afdeeling de violieren'', Antwerp: J.-E. Buschmann (1855), p. 56 In 1654 she became a member of the Antwerp
Guild of St. Luke as a 'wijnmeester', i.e. the daughter of a master.
[Catharina Pepijn]
in Frans Jozef Peter van den Branden, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche Schilder-school'', vol. 1, Buschmann, 1883, p. 477
Very little is known about her career. At the end of her life she was renting a house in a
beguinage. She was taken ill and was cared for by a nurse. After she died she was buried at
Antwerp Cathedral.
[Katlijne Van Der Stighelen, Mirjam Westen, ]Maaike Meijer
Maaike Meijer (born 25 January 1949) is a Dutch literary scholar. She is a Professor emeritus of Maastricht University.
Meijer was born in Eindhoven in 1949, and gained her doctorate cum laude from Utrecht University in 1988 with a thesis entitl ...
, ''A chacun sa grace: Femmes artistes en Belgique et au Pays-Bas 1500-1950'', Ludion, 1999, p. 170
Work
Katharina Pepijn was known in her time as a history and portrait painter.
[
Currently only two works are attributed to Katharina Pepijn. Both are portraits of abbots of ]St. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp
St Michael's Abbey in Antwerp was a Premonstratensian abbey founded in 1124 by Norbert of Xanten and laid waste during the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1807 a semaphore station was installed in the tower of the church. The buildings were demolis ...
, executed with oil on canvas in the 1650s. That of Abbot Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre
Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre (1591–1652), sometimes Jean Chrysostome Van der Sterre or Joannes Chrysostomus Stella, was an ecclesiastical writer and abbot of St. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp.
Life
Vander Sterre was born in 's-Hertogenbosch on ...
was made shortly after his death in 1652. The other is of Abbot Norbertus van Couwerven. Both paintings were originally kept at St. Michael's Abbey.[ Her portraits are in the style of Rubens and van Dyck.][Ursula Härting. "Pepyn, Maarten." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 16 March 2015]
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Flemish Baroque painters
Flemish portrait painters
Flemish history painters
Flemish women painters
Painters from Antwerp
17th-century Flemish painters
17th-century women artists
1610s births
1688 deaths