# Catharina van Hemessen (1527/28–after 1567), Antwerp, 1548, oil on panel

- By: Catharina van Hemessen (Antwerp, ca. –1560)
- Date: 1548
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 23 cm x width 15.2 cm
- Credit line: F.G.S. Baron van Brakell tot den Brakell Bequest, Arnhem
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4256--cde019d9e735c0d49e1b915ec0e43076)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/b135d5b1da0f880e1e68cb1960f7a429.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The self-assured Catharina van Hemessen signed and dated this portrait of an unknown woman. In large gilt letters, she inscribed in Latin ‘Catherina de Hemessen pinxit 1548,’ which translates as ‘Catharina van Hemessen painted this in 1548.’ Van Hemessen is the first Southern Netherlandish female painter by whom signed and dated works are known. This portrait is likely one of her earliest pieces.