Johanna Vergouwen (Antwerp 1630, - ibidem, 11 March 1714) was a Flemish Baroque painter.

Biography

According to the RKD, she was brought up in a family of painters.
She was the daughter of the Flemish painter-decorator Louis Vergouwen (died 1659) and his wife Maaike Verwerff, who was the daughter of the painter Hans Verweff; her sister Maria married Michiel Immenreat. She was active as a painter and copyist, but also as an art dealer.
She is mentioned in Cornelis de Bie

Cornelis de Bie

Cornelis de Bie was a Brabant rederijker, poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier.He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies...

's book on painters in his chapter on noteworthy female painters as a copyist of Anthony van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck

Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next...

 and Rubens

Rubens

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She studied with Balthazar van den Bossche and Lucas van Uden

Lucas van Uden

Lucas van Uden was a Flemish Baroque painter specializing in landscapes.-Biography:Lucas van Uden was born in Antwerp, where he entered the guild of St. Luke in 1626–27. Although he was never part of Peter Paul Rubens's studio, his works are partly indebted to that master. Van Uden even made...

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Works

• Portrait of twins riding wooden little horses, oil on canvas, 1668, Christie's Amsterdam 6 May 2008, 120 250 €, n° 180
• 1673 copy of a picture by Van Dyck, Samson and Delilah, Mexico, Museo Nacional de San Carlo.
• Portrait of a sculptor, sold in Paris, 14 June 1954.