Mayken Verhulst (Mechelen, 1518 - Mechelen, 1599) was a sixteenth-century miniature, tempera and watercolor painter, identified by Lodovico Guicciardini in 1567 as one of the most important female artists in the Low Countries. Mechelen: Grote Markt square, with St. ... Events A plague of tropical fire ants devastates crops on Hispaniola. ... Year 1599 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... The word miniature, derived from the Latin minium, red lead, is a picture in an ancient or medieval manuscript; the simple decoration of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment. ... A 1367 tempera on wood by Niccolò Semitecolo. ... Carl Larsson, Crayfishing, watercolor, 1897. ... Events The Duke of Alva arrives in the Netherlands with Spanish forces to suppress unrest there. ... The Low Countries, the historical region of de Nederlanden, are the countries (see Country) on low-lying land around the delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse (Maas) rivers. ...

Life

Mayken Verhulst was the second wife of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, mother-in-law of Pieter Brueghel the Elder and, according to Karel van Mander, the first teacher of her grandsons Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder. No works survive that can be securely attributed to her, although she is frequently identified as the person behind several works assigned to the Master of the Brunswick Monogram.^[1] She might also have been the author of a painting in the Kunsthaus Zürich with a self portrait with her husband (panel, 50.5 x 59 cm).^[2] Following Pieter Coecke's death, she likely oversaw the publication of a large woodcut series Ces Moeurs et Fachons de Faire des Turcz (The Turkish Manners of an Artistic Lady) (1553).^[3] Pieter van Aelst or Pieter Coecke van Aelst (August 14, 1502 to December 6, 1556) was a Flemish painter. ... Bruegels The Painter and The Connoisseur drawn c. ... The Continence of Scipio by Carel van Mander (1600) Oil on copper, 44 x 79 cm. ... Anthony van Dyck: Portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Younger Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564/65-1636) was a Flemish painter, known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Brueghel the Elders paintings and nicknamed Hell Brueghel for his fantastic treatments of fire and grotesque imagery. ... Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) was a Flemish painter, son of Pieter Brueghel the Elder and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger. ... Kunsthaus Zürich Johann Heinrich Füssli: Die drei Hexen (the three witches) Kunsthaus Zürich, located at Heimplatz 1 in Zürich, Switzerland, is one of the most important art museums of the country. ... Four horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer Ukiyo-e woodcut, Ishiyama Moon by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1889) Woodcut is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface... // Events June 26 - Christs Hospital in London gets a Royal Charter July 6 - Edward VI of England dies July 10 - Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England - for the next nine days July 18 - Lord Mayor of London proclaims Queen Mary as the rightful Queen - Lady Jane Grey...

Notes

1. ^ Bergmans, passim. This is mentioned by most subsequent studies about Verhulst, although always with conditions.
2. ^ King, p. 394
3. ^ Op de Beeck, passim.

Sources

• Bergmans, Simone. "Le Problème de Jan van Hemessen, monogrammatiste de Brunswick," in Revue belge d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art, vol. 24, 1955, pp. 133–57.
• King, Catherine. "Looking a Sight: Sixteenth-Century Portraits of Woman Artists," in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 58, 1995, pp. 381-406.
• Op de Beeck, Jan, Mayken Verhulst (1518-1599). The Turkish Manners of an Artistic Lady. Mechelen: Museum Het Zotte Kunstkabinet, 2005. ISBN 90-9019982-9.