Mayken Verhulst

Mayken Verhulst (* 1520 in Mechelen, † April 1, 1600 same place ) was a Flemish painter.

Even her father worked as a painter, but gained only at the local level prominence. Especially with their miniature paintings Verhulst could draw attention to themselves. In 1567 she was named by Lodovico Guicciardini as one of the five important women painters within the limits of the Netherlands.

Verhulst married the painter Pieter Coecke van Aelst, with whom she had three children. Her children had in the arts, her son Paul was a painter, her daughter Marie married Pieter Brueghel the Elder, who was also a Flemish artist from the Renaissance.

In her later life she taught her children and grandchildren in their profession, they should have January Breughel the Elder taught the art of painting with watercolors. Also his brother Pieter Brueghel the Younger, was at Verhulst in teaching.

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• Biography Verhulsts at Anserws.com

• Painters of the Flemish Renaissance
• Born in 1520
• Died in 1600
• Woman