Margaretha de Heer - Iris with 4 beetles and a butterfly

Margaretha de Heer (1603–1665) 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

Margaretha de Heer was born in

Leeuwarden Leeuwarden (; fy, Ljouwert, longname=yes /; Town Frisian: ''Liwwadden''; Leeuwarder dialect: ''Leewarden'') is a city and municipality in Friesland, Netherlands, with a population of 123,107 (2019). It is the provincial capital and seat of the ...

in the

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in 1603. She was the daughter of the glass painter Arjen Willems de Heer, and the older sister of the artist Gerrit Adriaensz de Heer.Margaretha de Heer
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She was taught by her father, who kept a large workshop on the corner of the Herestraat and Oude Oosterstraat in Leeuwarden, and on 21 September 1628 she married the painter Andries Pieters Nyhof or Nieuwhof.Margareta Arjensdr.
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She became the aunt of the artist Willem or Guilliam de Heer. She is known for genre works and studies of insects. In 1636 the Frenchman Charles Ogier, secretary to Cardinal Richelieu visited various studios of artists in the Northern Netherlands, including De Heer and

Wybrand de Geest Wybrand Simonsz. de Geest (16 August 1592 – ) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter from Friesland. Biography Wybrand de Geest was born and died at Leeuwarden. He learned painting from his father, Simon Juckesz, a stained glass worker. He st ...

in Leeuwarden, and he wrote in his diary that she was a good painter of birds and insects. Though she moved a few times to Groningen after her marriage, she kept returning to Leeuwarden and probably died there in 1665. A street in Leeuwarden is named after her.

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