Maria Theresia van Thielen (7 March 1640 – 11 February 1706) was a Flemish Baroque painter.''Arnold Houbraken's Grosse Schouburgh Der Niederlandischen'' ''Maler'', Arnold Houbraken, 2008, p.342, Google Books
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Biography

Maria van Thielen was born into an artistic patrician family. According to

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in his '' Het Gulden Cabinet'' her two sisters were painters; Houbraken says she competed with her sisters Anna Maria and Francoise Katharina and was very successful. The sister Anna may well have been her aunt Anna, however, who married the painter

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. The three women learned flower painting from their father,

Jan Philip van Thielen Jan Philip van Thielen or Jan Philips van Thielen (1618 in Mechelen – 1667 in Booischot) was a Flemish painter who specialized in flower pieces and garland paintings. He was a regular collaborator with leading Flemish and Dutch figure pai ...

. Maria's work is in the same style as her father, and probably much of her work has been attributed to him. She signed her works ''M.T.Van THIELEN.F''. She painted two flower pieces in her father's style for the city hall of Mechelen, one of which is signed and dated 1664. She became a master in the Antwerp guild of St. Luke in 1665.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Thielen, Maria Theresa 1640 births 1706 deaths Flemish Baroque painters Flemish still life painters Flemish women painters Artists from Mechelen Flower artists 17th-century women artists