Anna van Westerstee
Anna Beek née Anna van Westerstee (25 November 1657, The Hague - after October 1717, The Hague), was a Dutch publisher of maps.
Also recorded as Anna Beeck · Anna van Westerstee Beek · Anna Beek · Wed. Barent Beeck
Anna van Westerstee
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- Born
- Anna van Westerstee was born on 25 November 1657. · The Hague.
- Died
- Anna van Westerstee died in 1717.
- Occupation
- publisher · printmaker · painter · cartographer · designer · printer · copper engraver
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Anna Beek née Anna van Westerstee (25 November 1657, The Hague - after October 1717, The Hague), was a Dutch publisher of maps.
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Early life
Early life
Anna van Westerstee (later known as Anna Beek) was born on 25 November 1657 in The Hague, Dutch Republic, to Frederick van Westerstee and Anna van Alphen. She married the publisher and art dealer Barent Beek in 1678, aged about 20–21, and together they had seven children. She later divorced him and the local courts supported her running the family business. Since at least 1697 she often used her maiden name "Van Westerstee" again.
Career
Career
Most of the maps Beek produced are city and battle plans, which are mapping naval and ground troop movements. The War of the Spanish Succession began in 1701 and the majority of the maps she sold were of key moments, providing news of events in real time. Several reference books consider her the engraver of some of the works she published. Thirty maps produced by Beek are part of the Geography and Map Division's collection at the U.S. Library of Congress.
Death
Death
Beek died in 1717 in The Hague, Dutch Republic, aged 59 or 60.
Identificatie Titel(s): Beleg van Bouchain, 1710. Plan de la ville de Bouchain situé sur les rivieres de la Sensette (...) (titel op object)
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Identificatie Titel(s): Aankomst van de ambassadeurs te Rijswijk, 1697. Aankomst der heeren ambassadeurs en gevolmagtigden tot de algemene Vreede op t' Koninklyk huys Nieuburg tot Ryswyk / Arrivée des mess. les ambassadeurs et plenipotentiaures pour la Paix Generale à la maison royale de Neubourg prez de Riswic (titel op object). Serie van vijftien prenten over het Huis ter Nieuburch in Rijswijk e
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1657
Anna van Westerstee born at The Hague.
1717
Anna van Westerstee died.
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Anna van Westerstee was born in The Hague.
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- 1.Margreet van der Hut, Westerstee, Anna van (1657-na 1717) in Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland (in Dutch)
- 2.Beeck, Anna, and Gaspar De Baillieu. A collection of plans of fortifications and battles, -1709: Europe. [S.l.: s.n, 1709] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2008621715/. (Accessed March 22, 2018.)
- 3.Anna Beek. The Swaen.
- 4.Van den Hoonaard, Will C. Map worlds: A history of women in cartography. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2013.
- 5.The Map: Poltava, 1709, History Today, Volume 67 Issue 10 October 2017
- 6.Osborn, Carlyn. Anna Beek and the War of the Spanish Succession. Library of Congress. 25 March 2016.
- 7.Anna Beek. The Swaen.
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City Castle Zaltbommel, FelixArchief, National Museum Paleis het Loo and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
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