Background
She was the daughter of Marten Pepijn and Marie Huybrechts.
She was the daughter of Marten Pepijn and Marie Huybrechts.
Very little is known about the life and training of Katharina Pepijn. She likely trained with her father, a prominent painter in Antwerp. Very little is known about her career.
At the end of her life she was renting a house in a beguinage.
She was ill and was taken care off by a nurse After she died she was buried in the church, which is now Antwerp Cathedral.
In 1654 she became a member of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as a "wijnmeester", id est (that is) the daughter of a master.