Maria Strick information

Maria Strick
Maria Strick
	Maria Strick, by Willem Jacobsz Delff (1618)
Born	1577; 's-Hertogenbosch
Died	1631
Occupation	calligrapher
Known for	One of the first woman calligraphers to publish her own copybooks

Maria Strick (née Becq; 1577–after 1631) was a Dutch schoolmistress and calligrapher. She published four writing manuals, making her a key figure in the so-called ‘golden age of Dutch calligraphy’ (c. 1590-1650)^[1] and virtually unique among women calligraphers until the twentieth century.^[2]

She was born in 's-Hertogenbosch as the daughter of schoolmaster Casper Becq and an anonymous mother. She married the shoemaker Hans Strick in 1598. Her father managed a school in Delft, and Maria would follow in her father's footsteps by taking over the school after his death. In 1615, she moved the school to Rotterdam. Nothing is known about her or her husband after 1631.

Maria Strick probably learned calligraphy from Jan van de Velde the Elder, one of the teachers working at her father’s school. It was to him that Strick dedicated her first writing manual, Tooneel der loflijkcke schrijfpen, which was published around 1607. Strick’s elegant handwriting was skilfully executed in copper print by her husband, who had devoted himself to the art of engraving.

Maria Strick was highly esteemed during her life, being awarded the second prize in the prestigious Plume du couronnée writing contest, held in The Hague in 1620.^[3] In particular, her skills in the Italian hand were unequalled. Apart from the four known writing manuals, which established her reputation, she made calligraphic captions for art prints, and several handwritten specimens have survived.

^ Croiset van Uchelen, T. (2009). "Maria Strick, schoolmistress and calligrapher in early seventeenth-century Holland". Quaerendo. 39 (2): 83-132, esp p. 112. doi:10.1163/157006909X419973.
^ Marie Pavie was the only other early-modern woman calligrapher to have published a printed writing manual under her own name.
^ Croiset van Uchelen, T. (2009). "Maria Strick, schoolmistress and calligrapher in early seventeenth-century Holland". Quaerendo. 39 (2): 83-132, esp p. 87-88. doi:10.1163/157006909X419973.

[1] Croiset van Uchelen, T. (2009). "Maria Strick, schoolmistress and calligrapher in early seventeenth-century Holland". Quaerendo. 39 (2): 83-132, esp p. 112. doi:10.1163/157006909X419973.

[2] Marie Pavie was the only other early-modern woman calligrapher to have published a printed writing manual under her own name.

[3] Croiset van Uchelen, T. (2009). "Maria Strick, schoolmistress and calligrapher in early seventeenth-century Holland". Quaerendo. 39 (2): 83-132, esp p. 87-88. doi:10.1163/157006909X419973.

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Maria Strick
Maria Strick, by Willem Jacobsz Delff (1618)
Born	1577 (1577) 's-Hertogenbosch
Died	1631 (1632)
Occupation	calligrapher
Known for	One of the first woman calligraphers to publish her own copybooks