Catarina Ykens
Also recorded as Catharina Eykens · Cathérine Van Ykens · Catherine Eykens · Catharina Eyckens
Catarina Ykens
Catarina Ykens / Catarina Ykens · Public domain
- Born
- 1659. · Antwerp.
- Died
- Catarina Ykens's death is not recorded and the exact fate is unknown.
- Nationality
- Habsburg Netherlands.
- Occupation
- painter and nun.
- Fields
- still life and religious.
- Teachers
- Johannes Ykens.
- Languages
- Dutch.
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Identity
Identity
Training under Johannes Ykens is recorded. The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are still life and religious. Places of work recorded in the authority are Antwerp and Flanders. Work by Catarina Ykens is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado.
Catarina Ykens is recorded as a citizen of Habsburg Netherlands. Classed in the genre religious painting. Recorded with the occupation painter. Classed in the genre still life. Established in RKDartists under 85947. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the headings Catharina Eykens, Cathérine Van Ykens, Catherine Eykens, Catharina Eyckens and Catharina Eycken. Her recorded language was Dutch. She was the child of Johannes Ykens.
Catarina Ykens II - Vanitas bust of a lady with a crown of flowers on a ledge
Catarina Ykens
Madonna and Child
Catarina Ykens
Life and career
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Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1659
Catarina Ykens was born in 1659.
1689
Catarina Ykens died in 1689.
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- 1.Family name also spelled 'Ijkens' and 'Eykens'
- 2.Catarina Ykens (II) in the RKD
- 3.De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgilde Volume 2, by Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius, Antwerp, 1864, pp. 522, 529
- 4.Golemba, Beverly E. Lesser-Known Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Rienner. 22. 1992. 978-1-55587-301-1.
- 5.Hairs, Marie-Louise. The Flemish flower painters in the XVIIth century. Lefebvre et Gillet. 183, 286. 1985.
- 6.Tufts, Eleanor. Our Hidden Heritage: Five Centuries of Women Artists. Paddington Press. 100. 1973. 978-0-8467-0026-5.
- 7.Catarina Ykens (I) at the RKD
- 8.Catarina or Catharina Ykens, Flower garland with landscape at the Prado
- 9.David Freedberg, "The Origins and Rise of the Flemish Madonnas in Flower Garlands, Decoration and Devotion", Münchener Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, xxxii, 1981, pp. 115–150.
- 10.Susan Merriam, Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings. Still Life, Vision and the Devotional Image, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012
- 11.Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Mirjam Westen, Maaike Meijer, Leen de Jong, Elizabeth Honig, Yvette Marcus-De Groot, Esther Tobé, Sabine van Cauwenberge, Riet van der Linden, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Elck zijn waerom : vrouwelijke kunstenaars in België en Nederland, 1500-1950. Ludion, 1999, pp. 193-195
- 12.Ratcliffe, Susan. Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations. OUP. 127. 13 October 2011. 978-0-199-60912-3.
- 13.Delahunty, Andrew. From Bonbon to Cha-cha. Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases. OUP. 360. 23 October 2008. 978-0-199-54369-4.
- 14.Kristine Koozin, The Vanitas Still Lifes of Harmen Steenwyck: Metaphoric Realism, Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, p. vi-vii
- 15.Catarina Ykens (II), Vanitas bust of a lady with a crown of flowers on a ledge at Sotheby's
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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 17 August 2026.
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