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Flemish painter ()

"Teerlinc" redirects here. For other similar names, see Teerlinck and Teerlink.

Levina Teerlinc (s – 23 June ) was a Flemish Renaissance miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.

She was the most important miniaturist at the English court between Hans Holbein the Younger and Nicholas Hilliard. Her father, Simon Bening, was a renowned book illuminator and miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school and probably trained her as a manuscript painter.

She may have worked in her father's workshop before her marriage.^[2]

Biography

Teerlinc was born in Bruges, Flanders (which is now a part of Belgium) in the s, one of five daughters of renowned miniaturist Simon Bening and granddaughter of Catherine van der Goes (closely related to Hugo van der Goes) and Alexander Bening.^[3][4] After marrying George Teerlinc of Blanckenberge in , Teerlinc left for