Levina teerlinc biography sample

Home Privacy Sitemap. Her father, Simon Bening was a renowned book illuminator and miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school and probably trained her as a manuscript painter.

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She may have worked in her father's workshop before her marriage. Teerlinc was born in Bruges, Flanders which is now a part of Belgium in the s, one of five daughters of renowned miniaturist Simon Bening and granddaughter of Catherine van der Goes closely related to Hugo van der Goes and Alexander Bening. In Teerlinc was appointed tutor in painting to the King's daughter at the Spanish Court.

She and her husband had one son, Marcus. She died in Stepney, London on 23 June No surviving works have been confirmed as Teerlinc's. Yet she was one of the most well-documented artists at court in miniature painting, providing various portraits of Elizabeth I in the years , , , , "a full-length portrait" , "with Knights of the Order" , "with other personages" , and She also painted for Mary I in " as a New Year gift a small picture of the "trynitie ".

Teerlinc is best known for her pivotal position in the rise of the portrait miniature.