Maria Faydherbe, referred to in the French literature as Marie Fayd'herbe (1587–1643)[1] was a Flemish sculptor who lived and worked in Mechelen, then a city in the Spanish Netherlands.
She was the aunt of Hendrik's son, the famous sculptor Lucas Faydherbe.
[2] A Maria Faydherbe wrote on 20 December 1632 to the city council of Mechelen with a request to be enrolled in the Guild of Saint Luke.
It was claimed that in her letter she extolled her own skills which she deemed not to be inferior to those of the members of the Guild whom she called 'dozijnwerkers' (workers by the dozen).
[5] The collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum holds an alabaster sculpture of The Virgin and Child that is ascribed to Maria Faydherbe on the basis of a monogram reading MF S, taken to signify "Maria Faydherbe Sculpsit".