Maria-Jacoba Ommeganck

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Maria Jacoba Ommeganck (1760 - 16 December 1849 ) was a Belgian neoclassicistic animal painter, specializing in pictures with cattle.

Ommeganck was born in Antwerp in 1760 and baptized on 14 August of that year. She was a daughter of Paul and Barbara Ommeganck Laenen and sister of painter Balthasar-Paul Ommeganck (1755-1826). In May 1786 she married painter Hendrik Arnold Myin (1760-1826). Maria Jacoba Ommeganck died in Antwerp on 16 December 1849 .

Maria Jacoba Ommeganck, probably pupil of her famous brother, practiced painting as fine art dilettante. In 1788 she was co-founder of the Antwerp artist group Konstmaetschappije "tot Nut, Baet en Dienst”, together with her brother, Hendrik-Frans De Cort, Balthazar Solvyns, Pieter Faes, Mattheus Ignatius van Bree, and Marten Waefelaerts.

Further reading

  • W.G. Flippo, Lexicon of the Belgian Romantic Painters, Antwerp, 1981.

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