Michaelina Wautier

Michaelina Wautier

Self-portrait
Born 1617
Died 1689
Nationality Netherlands

Michaelina Wautier (1617 – 1689) was a painter from the Southern Netherlands.

Little is known of her life, but she was active in Brussels and sold 4 works to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm for his picture gallery that were attributed to her in the catalog of his collection drawn up in 1659.[1]

Paintings in the Archduke's gallery

Her self-portrait was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[2] It was misattributed however and was included as "Portrait: (executed by herself) of Artemisia Gentileschi, who lived for a time in England and worked for Charles the First. From a photograph by Hanfstaengl after the original painting in Earl Spencer's collection".

References

  1. Michaelina Wautier in the RKD
  2. Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
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