Margaretha van Godewijk
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Margaretha van Godewijk
Margaretha van Godewijk (August 30, 1627, Dordrecht – November 2, 1677, Dordrecht), was a Dutch Golden Age poet and painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken her father was a teacher at the Latin school in Dordrecht who taught her Greek, Latin, Italian, French and English. She could understand Hebrew, was clever at making rhymes.[1] She learned to paint from Nicolaes Maes and was good at making landscapes, villas, houses, flowers and all sorts of ships, in oils, watercolours, and embroidery.[1] She was also good at astronomy and making diamond engravings on glass (roemers).[1] Houbraken quoted the Dordrecht writer Mathias Balen (1611–1691), who published a history of Dordrecht that included various famous women.
According to the RKD she was a pupil of Cornelis Bisschop and became a flower painter, but no works survive.[2]
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References
- ^ a b c (Dutch) Margarita Godewyk Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ Margaretha van Godewijk in the RKD
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