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Leyster

American  
[lahy-ster] / ˈlaɪ stər /

noun

  1. Judith, 1609–60, Dutch painter.


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Thenceforth, Leyster was magnanimously deemed both to have lived and to have left behind a convincing body of work.

From Washington Post

I love this self-portrait by Judith Leyster, a 17th-century Dutch artist who, to art historians, didn’t exist until 1892.

From Washington Post

Infrared photographs of the violinist on the easel show that Leyster had initially painted a woman’s face — almost certainly her own.

From Washington Post

They found the initials “J” and “L” crossed by a star and soon enough linked it to Leyster.

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It is undeniable that these pictures all show the influence of Hals, whose pupil Judith Leyster may have been, and whose manner she caught as Mlle.

From Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Waters, Clara Erskine Clement

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