 Mayken Verhulst

Mayken Verhulst (1518–1596 or 1599), also known as Marie Bessemers, was a sixteenth-century miniature, tempera and watercolor painter, identified by Lodovico Guicciardini in 1567 as one of the four most important female artists in the Low Countries.She was actively engaged in the workshop of her husband, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, posthumously publishing his works.