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Maria de Grebber (1602,
Haarlem – 1680,
Enkhuizen
Enkhuizen () is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia.
History
Enkhuizen, like Hoorn and Amsterdam, was one of the harbor-towns of the VOC, from where overseas trade w ...
), was a
Dutch Golden Age painter. Grebber was talented at depicting buildings and perspective.
[Maria de Grebber in Frans Pietersz de Grebber Biography]
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
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Maria worked in her family workshop and thus did not need professional qualifications to obtain sales.
Life and career
![Maria de Grebber - portrait of Augustinus de Wolff](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Maria_de_Grebber_-_portrait_of_Augustinus_de_Wolff.jpg)
Maria de Grebber was the daughter of the painter
Frans Pietersz de Grebber and the sister of
Pieter de Grebber
Pieter Fransz de Grebber (c.1600–1652/3Between September 24, 1652, and January 29, 1653) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Life
De Grebber was born in Haarlem, the oldest son of Frans Pietersz de Grebber (1573–1643), a painter and embr ...
.
She belonged to the ancient
De Grebber family originally from
Waterland
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. Family Their father ran a respected workshop in Haarlem in the 1620s, where he taught
Judith Leyster
Judith Jans Leyster (also Leijster; baptised July 28, 1609Molenaer, JudithNational Gallery of Art website. Accessed February 1, 2014. – February 10, 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, portraits, and still lifes. Her work was ...
and his own children how to paint.
[Frans Pietersz de Grebber]
in the RKD
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Maria was not the only female painter in Haarlem. The first woman registered in the
Haarlem Guild of St. Luke
The Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke was first a Christian, and later a city Guild for various trades falling under the patron saints Luke the Evangelist and Saint Eligius.
History
During the lifetime of Geertgen tot Sint Jans, there was probably a ...
was
Sara van Baalbergen in 1631, and Leyster was a member by 1633. Both women were not members of an established artist family in Haarlem, the way Maria was.
She was seven years older than Leyster and, like Leyster and Baalbergen, married an artist, the faience baker Wouter Coenraetsz de Wolff. Her daughter Isabelle de Wolff later married the painter
Gabriel Metsu
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.
Maria de Grebber
in the RKD
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See also
* Geertruydt Roghman
References
Maria de Grebber
on inghist
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External links
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1602 births
1680 deaths
17th-century Dutch women
17th-century women artists
Artists from Haarlem
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch women painters