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(2) Catharina van Hemessen
(b Antwerp, 1528; d ?Antwerp, after 1587). Daughter of (1) Jan Sanders van Hemessen. Both Vasari and Guicciardini mention her, along with the illuminators Levina Teerlinc, Susanna Horenbout and others, as a prominent Netherlandish woman painter. According to van Beverwyck, she studied painting under her father. She acknowledged filial respect by signing an aristocratic Portrait of a Man (London, N.G.): Catharina filia Ioannes de Hemessen Pingebat 1552. The suggestion that Catharina painted background scenes for some of her father’s pictures (Bergmans) is unacceptable on both stylistic and chronological grounds.
Part of the Hemessen family
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