Anna Francisca de Bruyns (1604/5–1656), Artist, Wife and Mother: a Contextual Approach to Her Forgotten Artistic Career

Abstract

In a sketchbook preserved in the Brussels is a drawing by Francisca This small self-portrait, drawn in black ink on a sheet measuring 150 90 mm, almost seems to present a concise biography. At the bottom of the sheet, scrawled letters first ,1 Bruyns drawing Leyster Bruyns of