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Mayken Coecke or Maria Coecke (c.1545–1578) was the daughter of Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Mayken Verhulst. Mayken married Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1563. Bruegel was apprenticed to Pieter Coecke van Aelst, a leading Antwerp artist who had relocated to Brussels.
Mayken Verhulst (1518–1596 or 1599), also known as Marie Bessemers, was a sixteenth-century miniature, tempera and watercolor painter and print publisher. She was actively engaged in the workshop of her husband, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, posthumously publishing his works.
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Indeed, an evaluative study of Coecke himself beyond the monograph by Marlier (1966) is long overdue Op de Beeck’s bombshell is his identification (following Simone Bergmans, 1963) that Mayken Verhulst was the widely influential but still anonymous (despite facile attempts to equate him with Jan van Amstel) Master of the Brunswick Monogram.
Moreover, Mayken Verhulst, Pieter Coecke van Aelst's second wife and Bruegel's future mother-in-law, may also have taught him the rudiments of miniatures. While no miniatures by Bruegel have been found, his work undeniably shows great attention to detail.
After Pieter Coecke van Aelst Netherlandish. Publisher Mayken Verhulst Netherlandish. 1553. Not on view. Before the panorama of the city of Constantinople, a lengthy procession is depicted winding its way toward the minareted Fatih ("Conqueror") Mosque on the left horizon.
Sep 9, 2019 · In 1563, the year Pieter Bruegel married Mayken Coecke, the daughter of his former master, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, he also painted "Dulle Griet," also known as "Mad Meg," which depicts a ...
Biography. Mayken Verhulst was born in Mechelen. Although not much is known about her, she has long been esteemed as one of the most important female artists active in the early modern Low Countries. In 1567, Lodovico Guicciardini described her as one of the four most important women artists. Verhulst worked in miniature, tempera, and watercolor.
