Lot 237: - Maria Theresia van Thielen , Antwerp 1640 - 1706 still life with a rose, a tulip, a cornflower, morning glory, primuli and other flowers in a glass vase on a ledge oil on canvas

signed lower left: M.T. Van Thielen F: oil on canvas

measurements note 47 by 35.3 cm.; 18 1/2 by 13 7/8 in.

Private Collection, France.

Maria Theresia Van Thielen was the daughter of the accomplished still life painter Jan Philips van Thielen, of whose style the present lot is deeply reminiscent (see, for example, the painting offered New York, Christie's, 23 January 2004, lot 37). All three of Jan Philips van Thielen's daughters became still life painters and Maria Theresia appears to have been the most active and well known, becoming a master in the Antwerp guild of St. Luke in 1665.