Judith Leyster

Judith Leyster (1609-1660) Judith Leyster was born in Haarlem in 1609. Her father was a textile merchant and later a brewer. Leyster was probably apprenticed to Frans de Grebber and later worked at Frans Hals’s studio. Her paintings reveal the latter’s influence and that of his younger brother Dirck, as well as that of Jan Miense Molenaer, the painter she was to marry in ...