Mayken Verhulst
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Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Ces Moeurs et fachons de faire de Turcz (Customs and Fashions of the Turks), 16th century Mayken Verhulst (1518–1596 or 1599), also known as Marie Bessemers, was a sixteenth-century miniature,
tempera and watercolor painter, identified by Lodovico Guicciardini in 1567 as one of the four most important female artists in the Low Countries.
She was actively engaged in the workshop of her husband, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, posthumously publishing his works.
While she is recognized as an exceptionally skilled artist, little is known about her works or life as there are few surviving attributable sources of information.
Mayken Verhulst was born in Mechelen in 1518.
She was the second wife of the painter Pieter Coecke van Aelst, and the 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.
Her sister Lysbeth was married to the engraver and painter Hubert Goltzius, and her sister Barbara was married to the painter Jacob de Punder.
According to Slater (2019), she died in Brussels in 1596, approximately eighty years old.
, but most authority notices state that she died in Malines in 1599.
Following Pieter Coecke's death in 1550, she likely oversaw the publication of a large woodcut series Ces Moeurs et Fachons de Faire des Turcz (Manners and Customs of the Turks) (1553).
This print was originally designed by van Aelst as a tapestry design, strategically published by Verhulst as a print after his death to showcase his work.
Additionally, she waited until about twenty years following her husband's death to publicize his legacy, argued by Di Fur...
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