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Leyster

American  
[lahy-ster] / ˈlaɪ stər /

noun

  1. Judith, 1609–60, Dutch painter.


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There is no firm evidence that Leyster studied with Hals, but she made loose copies of several of his works and was a witness at the baptism of one of his children.

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

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

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

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Recent investigations make it probable that certain pictures which have for generations been attributed to Frans Hals were the work of Judith Leyster.

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