Known for portraits Patrons Isabella Clara Eugenia Died 1675 | Name Anna de Spouse(s) Isaac Bullart | |
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Native name Anne Francoise de Bruyns Education Probably taught by her uncle, Jacques Francquart | ||
Anna Francisca de Bruyns (1604, in Morialmé – 1675, in Arras) was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Biography
She was the niece of architect Jacques Francquart, who probably taught her to paint. She was painting by the age of seventeen. She was claimed to have been better than all other women painters of her time.
She did some work for the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia. At some point between 1622 and 1629, when the couple set up house in Arras, she had married the Rotterdam writer Isaac Bullart. They had 12 children.
References
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