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Margaretha van Godewijk (30 August 1627, Dordrecht – 2 November 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, and was clever at making rhymes. She learned to paint from Nicolaes Maes and was skilled at painting landscapes, villas, houses, flowers and all sorts of ships, in oils, watercolours, and embroidery. She was also good at astronomy and making diamond engravings on glass (roemers). 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.

References

1. ^ (in 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. Famous women in Mathias Balen's History of Dordrecht, 1677, on Google books
3. Margaretha van Godewijk in the RKD

• 1627 births
• 1677 deaths
• 17th-century Dutch poets
• Dutch Golden Age painters
• Artists from Dordrecht
• Dutch women painters
• Dutch women poets
• 17th-century Dutch women artists