Maria Theresa van Thielen

Maria Theresia van Thielen (7 March 1640 – 11 February 1706) was a Flemish Baroque painter.[1][2]

Maria Theresia van Thielen
Born
Maria Theresia

7 March 1640
Antwerp, Belgium
DiedFebruary 11, 1706(1706-02-11) (aged 65)
Antwerp, Belgium
NationalityFlemish
Known forPainting
MovementBaroque

Biography
Still life with flowers in a glass vase on a ledge

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.[3] Maria's work is in the same style as her father, and probably much of her work has been attributed to him.[4]

She signed her works M.T.Van THIELEN.F.[1] She painted two flower pieces in her father's style for the city hall of Mechelen, one of which is signed and dated 1664.[1]

She became a master in the Antwerp guild of St. Luke in 1665.[5]

References
  1. RKD entry on Maria Theresia van Thielen
  2. Arnold Houbraken's Grosse Schouburgh Der Niederlandischen Maler, Arnold Houbraken, 2008, p.342, Google Books: BGoogle-18C (German).
  3. (in 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
  4. "Still Life with Parrot | Milwaukee Art Museum". collection.mam.org. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  5. Old master paintings - day sale: auction in London, Thursday 4 December 2008. London: Sotheby's. 2008. OCLC 316013904.

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