Levina Teerlinc. Levina Teerlinc was a Flemish Renaissance miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. She was the most important miniaturist at the English court between Hans Holbein the Younger and Nicholas Hilliard.
Her father, Simon Bening was a renowned book illuminator and miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school and probably trained her as a manuscript painter. She may have worked in her father's workshop before her marriage.
Teerlinc was born in Bruges, Flanders in the 1510s, one of five daughters of renowned miniaturist Simon Bening and granddaughter of Catherine van der Goes and Alexander Bening. After marrying George Teerlinc of Blanckenberge in 1545, Teerlinc left for England, and is documented there by 1546, when she became court painter to the Tudor court, serving Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. She received an annual salary of E40 from 1546 until her death in 1576, as granted by Henry VIII and recorded by Lodovico Guicciardini, which was more than was provided to Holbein.
She was the only female painter in the court of Henry VIII. In 1559 Teerlinc was appointed tutor in painting to the King's daughter at the Spanish Court.
She and her husband had one son, Marcus. She died in Stepney, London on 23 June 1576. No extant works by Teerlinc are currently identified. Yet she was one of the most well-docum
Her father, Simon Bening was a renowned book illuminator and miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school and probably trained her as a manuscript painter. She may have worked in her father's workshop before her marriage.
Teerlinc was born in Bruges, Flanders in the 1510s, one of five daughters of renowned miniaturist Simon Bening and granddaughter of Catherine van der Goes and Alexander Bening. After marrying George Teerlinc of Blanckenberge in 1545, Teerlinc left for England, and is documented there by 1546, when she became court painter to the Tudor court, serving Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. She received an annual salary of E40 from 1546 until her death in 1576, as granted by Henry VIII and recorded by Lodovico Guicciardini, which was more than was provided to Holbein.
She was the only female painter in the court of Henry VIII. In 1559 Teerlinc was appointed tutor in painting to the King's daughter at the Spanish Court.
She and her husband had one son, Marcus. She died in Stepney, London on 23 June 1576. No extant works by Teerlinc are currently identified. Yet she was one of the most well-docum
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