Maria Theresa van Thielen

Maria Theresia van Thielen
Still life with flowers in a glass vase on a ledge.
Birth name	Maria Theresia
Born	7 May 1640[1] Mechelen
Died	1706 (aged 65–66) Antwerp
Nationality	Belgium
Field	Painting
Movement	Baroque

Maria Theresia van Thielen (7 May 1640–1706) was a Flemish Baroque painter.^[1]

Biography

Maria van Thielen was born into an artistic patrician family. According to Houbraken, she competed with her sisters Anna Maria and Francoise Katharina and was very successful. The sister Anna may well have been her aunt Anna, however, who married the painter Theodoor Rombouts. The three women learned flower painting from their father, Jan Philip van Thielen.^[2] Maria's work is in the same style as her father, and probably much of her work has been attributed to him.

She signed her works M.T.Van THIELEN.F.^[3] She painted two flower pieces in her father's style for the city hall of Mechelen, one of which is signed and dated 1664.^[3]

According to Cornelis de Bie in his Het Gulden Cabinet also her two sisters were painters.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Arnold Houbraken's Grosse Schouburgh Der Niederlandischen Maler, Arnold Houbraken, 2008, p.342, Google Books: BGoogle-18C (German).
2. ^ (Dutch) Maria Theresa, Anna Maria en Francoise Katharina van Thielen biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
3. ^ ^{a b} RKD entry on Maria Theresia van Thielen

Persondata
Name	Thielen, Maria Theresa
Alternative names
Short description	painter
Date of birth	7 May 1640
Place of birth	Mechelen
Date of death	1706
Place of death	Antwerp