Margaretha van Godewijk

Margaretha van Godewijk, after a self-portrait

Margaretha van Godewijk (August 30, 1627, Dordrecht – November 2, 1677, Dordrecht), was a Dutch Golden Age poet and painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken her father was a teacher at the Latin school in Dordrecht who taught her Greek, Latin, Italian, French and English. She could understand Hebrew, was clever at making rhymes.^[1] She learned to paint from Nicolaes Maes and was good at making landscapes, villas, houses, flowers and all sorts of ships, in oils, watercolours, and embroidery.^[1] She was also good at astronomy and making diamond engravings on glass (roemers).^[1] Houbraken quoted the Dordrecht writer Mathias Balen (1611–1691), who published a history of Dordrecht that included various famous women.

According to the RKD she was a pupil of Cornelis Bisschop and became a flower painter, but no works survive.^[2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} (Dutch) Margarita Godewyk Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
2. ^ Margaretha van Godewijk in the RKD

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Name	Godewijk, Margaretha van
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Date of birth	August 30, 1627
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Date of death	November 2, 1677
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