Background
She was the daughter of January Koerten (1622–1651), a Baptist cloth merchant, and his wife Ytje Cardinaels (d before October 25, 1691). Her father died when she was one year old.
She was the daughter of January Koerten (1622–1651), a Baptist cloth merchant, and his wife Ytje Cardinaels (d before October 25, 1691). Her father died when she was one year old.
She produced landscapes, seascapes, flowers, portraits, and religious scenes in this medium. Her clients included Peter the Great of Russia, Frederick Elector of Brandenburg, Johan de Witt and William III of England. Her mother remarried Rosijn Zacharias in 1659, also a cloth merchant.
They had no children.
From a young age she sat apart from other children and showed an interest in depicting what she saw around her, things both animate and inanimate. She gained fame as an artist working out of her husband"s shop at Number.
137 Nieuwendijk Amsterdam, which served as a gallery of her work. Peter the Great honored her with a visit in 1697 in the company of Mayor Witsen.
According to Houbraken, she could carve scenes on glass with a diamond, embroider and weave silk creations, pouring wax creations, lace-making and watercolor painting.
According to the RKD, she was known as a knipkunstenaar or papercut artist and draughts(wo)manitoba Joanna Koerten died on 28 December 1715 aged 65, and is buried in the Oudezijds Chapel, Amsterdam. Among them are artists Gerard de Lairesse, Melchior Hondecoeter and Nicholas Verkolje.
Calligraphers Jacob Gadelle, and Mary Strick.
And poets David van Hoogstraten, John Brandt, Gesine Brit and Katharina Lescailje.