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Mechtelt van Lichtenberg

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17: 49:, Holland, the daughter of Gerrit Lichtenberg (d. 1549), a member of the guild of saddlers and a city councilman, and Cornelia de Vooght van Rijnevelt. Sometime between 1546 and 1549 she married Egbert Boecop (d. 1578), a church master in 53:. They had a son and five daughters, and two of their daughters — Margaretha toe Boecop (before 1551 – after 1610) and Cornelia toe Boecop (1551 – after 1629) — also became artists. 215: 200: 220: 210: 34: 16: 99:
She signed her early work 'Mechtelt van Lichtenberg' and her later work 'Mechtelt van Lichtenberg otherwise known as Boecop'.
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It is unclear how van Lichtenberg learned to paint, although it is possible she was apprenticed to
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features members of the Boecop family as apostles. Few other pieces are known to have survived.
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Mechtelt (sometimes spelled Mechteld) van Lichtenberg was born in
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The Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400–1700
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Her earliest known work is an oil on panel entitled
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few northern female Dutch painters of the period
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Maarten van Heemskerck
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"Lichtenberg, Mechtelt van (ca. 1520–1598)"




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16th-century Dutch painters
Dutch women painters
Dutch Renaissance painters
Painters from Utrecht (city)
16th-century women artists

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