Leyster, Judith

Leyster, Judith
born July 28, 1609, Haarlem, Neth.
died Feb. 10, 1660, Heemstede

Dutch painter.

A brewer's daughter, she had gained membership in the Haarlem painters' guild by age 24. Many of her known works, primarily portraits, genre paintings, and still lifes, were formerly attributed to her male contemporaries. Though the influence of Frans Hals is clear, she was also interested in the Baroque style of the Utrecht school. She embraced a greater range of subjects than other Dutch painters of the era and was one of the first to depict domestic scenes.

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▪ Dutch painter
baptized July 28, 1609, Haarlem, Neth.
 
buried Feb. 10, 1660, Heemstede, near Amsterdam

      Dutch painter, one of the few female artists of the era to have emerged from obscurity. Among her known works are portraits and genre and still-life paintings.

      Leyster was the daughter of a brewer. She began to paint while still quite young, and by age 24 she had become a member of the Haarlem painters' guild. Her subject matter embraced a greater range than was typical of Dutch painters of the era, and she was one of the first to exploit the domestic genre scene. She may have worked in Frans Hals (Hals, Frans)'s shop, or, according to the poet Samuel Ampzing, she spent time with portrait painter Frans Pietersz. de Grebber. Nonetheless, the influence of Hals on her work is clear; she also was interested in the tenebrist (tenebrism) style of the Utrecht school. She introduced light sources into her paintings, as in the lamp-lit The Proposition (1631). The majority of her dated works were painted between 1629 and 1635. In 1636 she married genre painter Jan Meinse Molenaer and moved with him to Amsterdam.

      Many of Leyster's works were in the past attributed to her male contemporaries. Among her best-known paintings are The Proposition, Carousing Couple (1630; also called The Happy Couple), and Boy Playing the Flute (c. 1635).

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