Background
Wulfraet was born and died in Arnhem. According to Houbraken she was the daughter of Matthijs Wulfraet who travelled to Frankfurt and became a respected portrait painter, painting many visiting dignitaries and important citizens.
Wulfraet was born and died in Arnhem. According to Houbraken she was the daughter of Matthijs Wulfraet who travelled to Frankfurt and became a respected portrait painter, painting many visiting dignitaries and important citizens.
Houbraken was planning on devoting a page to her memory, but he never got around to it, since he died before he reached her birth year in his three-volume work on biographical sketches of painters of the Netherlands. Her biography was included in January van Gool"s sequel, accompanied by an portrait based on a drawing of one of her self-portraits sent to him by Gerard Melder. In 1741 she returned to Arnhem to live out her days.
According to the RKD she learned to paint from her father Mathijs and moved to Amsterdam with him in 1681.
She was influenced by Caspar Netscher and is known for portraits, landscapes, and genre works (though no landscapes by her are known today, these were recorded in her workshop in the inventory made upon her death).