Catharina van Hemessen

Artist (Belgium)

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Caterina, or Catharina van Hemessen (1528 – after 1565) was a Flemish Renaissance painter. She is the earliest female Flemish painter for whom there is verifiable extant work. She is mainly known for a series of small scale female portraits completed between the late 1540s and early 1550s and a few religious compositions. Van Hemessen is often given the distinction of cr...

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