Margaretha van godewijk door samuel van hoogstraten

Margaretha van Godewijk (30 August 1627,

Dordrecht Dordrecht (), historically known in English as Dordt (still colloquially used in Dutch, ) or Dort, is a city and municipality in the Western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. It is the province's fifth-largest city after R ...

– 2 November 1677,

), was a Dutch Golden Age poet and painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken her father was a teacher at the Latin school in Dordrecht who taught her Greek, Latin, Italian, French and English. She could understand Hebrew, and was clever at making rhymes.Margarita Godewyk Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the

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She learned to paint from

Nicolaes Maes Nicolaes Maes (January 1634December 1693 (buried 24 December 1693)) was a Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, portraits, religious compositions and the occasional still life. A pupil of Rembrandt in Amsterdam, he returned to work in his n ...

and was skilled at painting landscapes, villas, houses, flowers and all sorts of ships, in oils, watercolours, and embroidery. She was also good at astronomy and making diamond engravings on glass ('' roemers''). Houbraken quoted the Dordrecht writer

Mathias Balen Mathias or Matthijs Jansz. Balen (born 1 October 1611 in Dordrecht; died 1691) was a Dutch historian. Biography He first distinguished himself as a poet, but afterwards applied himself to historical researches, and in 1677 published a description ...

(1611–1691), who published a history of Dordrecht that included various famous women.Famous women
in Mathias Balen's ''History of Dordrecht'', 1677, on

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According to the RKD she was a pupil of Cornelis Bisschop and became a flower painter, but no works survive.Margaretha van Godewijk
in the

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References

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