Maria Eugenia de Beer
María Eugenia de Beer (died 1652), was a Spanish chalcographer. She was the granddaughter of the painter Joos de Beer and daughter of (1591, Utrecht – 1651, Madrid), a Dutch-born painter and engraver who moved to Spain in 1618. In 1641 she married Nicolas Merstraten.
Maria Eugenia de Beer

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- 1601
- Died
- 1652
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- Spain
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- engraver
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- portrait
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- Spanish
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María Eugenia de Beer (died 1652), was a Spanish chalcographer. She was the granddaughter of the painter Joos de Beer and daughter of (1591, Utrecht – 1651, Madrid), a Dutch-born painter and engraver who moved to Spain in 1618. In 1641 she married Nicolas Merstraten.
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She was known for her production of engraved illustrations. Many of her motifs were religious or mythological. She signed her works with the name "Doña". • Carrete Parrondo, Juan, «Divertimento y trascendencia: estampas de María Eugenia de Beer, 1640 – 1652», en Cuaderno de aves para el príncipe, Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1982.

Retrato de Gregorio de Tapia Salcedo, aguafuerte y buril, grabado por María Eugenia de Beer sobre dibujo de Domingo Guerra, Biblioteca Nacional de España
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Identificatie Titel(s): Titel in architecturale omlijsting met wapenschild. Titelprent voor: P. Basilio Varen, Guerra de Flandes, escrita por el Eminentissimo Cardenal Bentivollo Madrid MDCXLIII
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1601
Maria Eugenia de Beer born.
1652
Maria Eugenia de Beer died.
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- 1.Ceán, t. I, pp. 123-124.
- 2.Barrio Moya, José Luis, «Las pinturas de Cornelio de Beer en la iglesia de San Patricio de Lorca y algunas noticias sobre el artista», Murgetana, nº 102, 2000, p. 9-25.
- 3.Catálogo de la exposición: Los Austrias. Grabados de la Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 1993, ISBN 84-7896-043-0, n.º 267.
- 4.Carrete (1982), p. 20.
- 5.Carrete (1982), p. 22.
- 6.Exercicios de la gineta, Biblioteca digital hispánica, Biblioteca Nacional de España.
- 7.Carrete (1982), p. 28.
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Beer, Maria Eugenia de, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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