Johanna Vergouwen

Johanna Vergouwen (or Jeanne Vergouwen) (Antwerp 1630, - ibidem, 11 March 1714) was a Flemish Baroque painter.

Biography

According to the RKD, she was brought up in a family of painters.^[1] She was the daughter of the Flemish painter-decorator Louis Vergouwen (died 1659) and his wife Maaike Verwerff, who was the daughter of the painter Hans Verweff; her sister Maria married Michiel Immenreat.^[1] She was active as a painter and copyist, but also as an art dealer.^[1] She is mentioned in Cornelis de Bie's book on painters in his chapter on noteworthy female painters as a copyist of Anthony van Dyck and Rubens.^[2] She studied with Balthazar van den Bossche and Lucas van Uden.

Works

• Portrait of twins riding wooden little horses^[3], oil on canvas, 1668, Christie's Amsterdam 6 May 2008, 120 250 €, n° 180
• 1673 copy of a picture by Van Dyck, Samson and Delilah, Mexico, Museo Nacional de San Carlo.
• Portrait of a sculptor, sold in Paris, 14 June 1954.

Bibliography

E. Duverger, « The Antwerp painter Johanna Vergouwen (1630-1714) » Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 2000.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Jeanne Vergouwen in the RKD
2. ^ Het Gulden Cabinet, p 558
3. ^ Hendrick & Everard Kochman?, sons of Zwollemayor, Herman Franciscus Kochman.