Maria Theresa van Thielen

Maria Theresia van Thielen

Still life with flowers in a glass vase on a ledge.
Born Maria Theresia
7 May 1640[1]
Mechelen
Died 1706 (aged 65–66)
Antwerp
Nationality Flemish
Known for Painting
Movement Baroque

Maria Theresia van Thielen (7 May 1640 – 1706) was a Flemish Baroque painter.[1]

Biography

Maria van Thielen was born into an artistic patrician family. According to Cornelis de Bie 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 Theodoor Rombouts. The three women learned flower painting from their father, Jan Philip van Thielen.[2] 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.[3] She painted two flower pieces in her father's style for the city hall of Mechelen, one of which is signed and dated 1664.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Arnold Houbraken's Grosse Schouburgh Der Niederlandischen Maler, Arnold Houbraken, 2008, p.342, Google Books: BGoogle-18C (German).
  2. ↑ (Dutch) Maria Theresa, Anna Maria en Francoise Katharina van Thielen biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  3. 1 2 RKD entry on Maria Theresia van Thielen
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