Barbara van den Broeck

Following training by her father she started working at the family workshop. She engraved her father’s drawn designs onto copper plates to make prints of them. Barbara van den Broeck’s modest body of work reveals a refined and individual engraving style. In 1581, she married Daniël van den Queborn, a painter. Around 1585 the family fled religious and political unrest in the Southern Netherlands following the Fall of Antwerp. Van den Broeck went first to Middelburg before settling in The Hague, where her son Crispijn van den Queborn was born. He would later also become a printmaker.