Maria Verhulst Bessemers

Flemish artist

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influence on Pieter Bruegel the Elder

  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Peasant Dance
    In Pieter Bruegel, the Elder: Life

    Coecke’s wife, Maria Verhulst Bessemers, was a painter known for her work in watercolour or tempera, a suspension of pigments in egg yolk or a glutinous substance, on linen. The technique was widely practiced in her hometown of Mechelen (Malines) and was later employed by Bruegel. It…

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