Hello everyone, this is going to be my last and final blog of my life, and it has been truly a pleasure writing about my life and showing you all my paintings. I am getting old now and the two children that had been able to survive had gone off with their own lives. Now, my husband and I live in Heemstede, we had lived in a very small house that had been located on the grounds of Groenedaal park. Even though I was not able to produce and publish many art pieces I had been able to make two very famous after I had children. But it was very difficult to produce works while having children. Below are my two art pieces that I was able to create, however, I still am very regretful because the lack of time to paint more, and entertain all my followers. Now, there is much not to write about, however I will try my best to sum up my entire life in the rest of my blog. All in all, I believe I had lived a very successful life as an artist. I hope that my works of dutch art will affect the world, and change/shape the art world in the future. Maybe even a hundred years from now, I hope that my art works had helped set the foundation for much better artists to come. I am very satisfied with my life, I feel that my children had also become very successful artists as well, although not as famous as I was. I thank you all my readers for critiquing me and my art work, I will leave you with a picture of one of my last paintings, and my self protrait.

Thank you for everything,

Judith Leyster

GOOD EVENING EVERYONE! I am in such a great mood tonight; everything is going very well with my new family! YES everyone, my family. However, it had still be very busy and everything had been out of place. Who knew that taking care of five children would be so hard… my husband, Jan Miesne Molenaer and I both haven’t been really keeping up with many of our art pieces. But my goal is to finish at least two, and so far I had finished one with the tulips. I feel like as soon as I have started to begin taking care of children, there is honestly no time to me and my husband. In addition, because the economy had been very bad in Haarlem, we had decided to just move to a much more urban city, Amsterdam. This had been also good for us, as artists because the art marketing had been much more stable then where we had used to live. However, we had only lived here for eleven years, because only two of our children had really survived to adulthood. There was nothing left for us here, so my husband and I had been starting to plan the rest of our lives.. that is if we survive for that long. Anyways, there below this blog are my last two art pieces. This is going to be the last of my art, I feel that right now is a good time to stop, so please once again critizism is good for me. Thank you, until next time

Judith Leyster

Drama, Drama, Drama...

So, it’s been awhile let me just cut to the chase but honestly I LOVE having apprentices to have at the workshop of mine, and it is just SUCH an honor. But there are is so much drama between artists. Who knew that men fall into pathetic drama just like women do. Sigh, anyways.. It’s been just two years! And once again, so much has happened. It’s been such a successful two years, because of all, I was able tom complete two of my favorite art pieces. In addition, you already know, but I feel I must say it again! I have three apprentices! Do you know what that means for me? I am at the level of a man! NOW, they have nothing to say to me! Sigh it’s been such a great two years of my life. ALSO, I thought that this would never happen, but I am getting married! It will take in about a year because both me and my fiancé are extremely busy with are arts. I will give you brief information about my fiancé. I am so excited, He too is also an artist, however and honestly he is not as famous me, but we share the same type of art, which made me fall in love with him! He was always never there to discourage me, and never once did he discriminate me because of my gender. Once again! It has been an honor to write to my followers, and i have posted paintings of people in their daily lives, becuase i enjoy do that the most, SO i hope you can enjoy it too!


Judith Leyster

Finally, I am accepted!

I have exciting news to tell everyone that comes to my blog! Its been awhile, I understand and I apologize but you all will be very happy to hear my news. Today,… (get the drum roll ready) in the year of 1633 I had been finally accepted as the very first woman to become a member of Haarlem Guild of St. Luke! This is such exciting news I just couldn't wait to write this all in my blog. OH BOYY, today has been such a busy day. I feel really honored, this might the be turn around for me, I might become more famous now. However, I felt kind of bad.. there are so many talented artists here, but sadly they didn't meet the standards to attend a professional and run a workshop. In addition, there I had such many great experiences and had started to show others my work more. Below this blog entry you will be able to see one of my art works that I have worked on for very long. Please I enjoy comments! I do not know YET, of what to except because I haven’t been here for very long, but please do expect great work, I’ve been working since 1625, and probably will stop working in about two years. After all, this is something I am not going to do for the rest of my self. It is just a hobby right now. Well, I’ll try my best to update everyone as soon as possible with more paintings! As of now,

With much love,

Judith Leyster

Welcome to my blog!

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen! My name is Judith Leyster, and I am the eighth child of my family, and my father’s name is Jan Willemsz Leyster. I am experimenting currently with this blog to see if people will actually comment on my art work! And MAYBE, you never know it might be a great success! So, I am extremely excited to being this blog of mines. To give you a brief overview on what my blog will be about, is that I will add in a few of my daily thoughts and occasionally add in my paintings. I will try my best to get them on my blog, because I would love feedback on my paintings!

             Anyways, I’ll first introduce myself and give you a brief background of my life so far. I was born in the city of Haarlem, and I had first begun to get interesting in painting in the year of 1628. The type of paintings I was especially interested in was Dutch Realism, because I love painting realistic portrayals of secular everyday life of people. It is very relax to paint because it is interesting of how people react to things and carry out their works a certain way. Although, from my prior knowledge, I understand that most of Europe was concentrating on classical or Baroque type of art, but that had never stopped me from continuing on with my type of art. However, there still was that major obstacle I had to overcome, which was being discouraged because I was just a woman. I absolutely did not want that to bring me down, because honestly I know I can prove myself to be a very famous painter of my time! After moving to Vreeland near Utrecht, quickly I had fallen under the influence of the Utrecht Caravaggist and continued to paint there. Once again I moved to Zaandam near Amsterdam, and there I had just stayed not really getting any improvement on my paintings, but that is alright because I will not let this discourage me, I just had to keep trying. Eventually, I was brought back to my hometown in 1631, there I was able to witness a baptism of one of Fran Hal’s children. Although I do not remember completely, I remember that I had taken Fran Hals teachings extremely seriously and always paid attention, and tried my best. Learning under him and his brother had been a great blessing. As a result, I had been able to begin signing my own paintings. This had shown a lot of people in my city, that FINALLY YES! I am an independent woman, and artist during this time. It had been a rough couple of years, but I believe it was all worth it in the end. Sigh,, I wish I could have been taught by him a lot longer. That is okay, because there are things that must end! I will carry a lot his great influence on me, and spread it to other people first, BUT first what should I do?