Levina teerlinc biography of nancy

Flemish artist who painted miniature portraits in Flanders and at the English court. Born Levina Benninck around 1520 (some sources cite 1515) in Bruges, Flanders (now a part of Belgium); died in 1576 in Stepney, England; daughter of Simon Benninck (a painter of miniatures and book illuminator); married; children: Marcus.

Works attributed to 16th-century miniature portrait painter Levina Teerlinc have been hard to document, but it is documented that she was both well known in her native Flanders and favored at the courts of several English kings and queens.

She was born around 1520 in Bruges, the daughter of another miniature painter, and achieved some fame in her own country before migrating to England around 1546 to accept an annuity from the court of Henry VIII. Teerlinc stayed at court for a number of years, working for Edward VI, Mary I , and Elizabeth I , whose portrait she first painted in 1551.

She received expensive gifts from roya