Artist

Judith Leyster

1609–1660 · born in Haarlem · died in Heemstede

Judith Leyster was a Dutch painter born in Haarlem in 1609. She painted lively scenes of musicians and everyday people and was one of the few women admitted to the painters' guild. After she died in 1660 her work was mistaken for Frans Hals's until it was rediscovered in the 1890s.