Maria Schalcken

[1] She was the younger sister of the painter Godfried Schalcken, who first learned to paint from Samuel van Hoogstraten and later from Gerard Dou.

[1] She is thought to have begun her studies around 1665, but gave up the practice in 1682 upon marriage to the merchant Severijn van Bracht.

[2] According to the Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis (RKD) she is known for genre works.

[3] Her self-portrait was attributed to her brother until it was cleaned in the 20th century and her full signature appeared.

[4] There is one other known work by her hand entitled Boy Offering Grapes to a Woman which resides in the Leiden Collection, but historians suspect that other works currently attributed to her brother may have been executed by her.