Maria Withoos

Maria Withoos (1663–after 1699) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and the daughter of Mathias Withoos and sister of the painters Alida, Johannes, Frans and Pieter.

[1] Alida was still alive when Houbraken was writing and gave him the information he used for his sketch on her father and the rest of the family.

Maria was baptized like her other brothers and sisters in Amersfoort and moved to Hoorn with her father in the rampjaar 1672.

[2] She married twice in Hoorn; first to Johannes Brickely and in 1698 to Dirck Knijp.

[3] She died in Hoorn; the date of her death is uncertain.

Flowers in a landscape, ca. 1700