Van Hemessen & Father: Catharina and Jan Sanders van Hemessen as artistic pioneers in 16th-century Antwerp

Portrait of a unique 16th-century family of artists. Catalog accompanying the first ever exhibition on the pioneering female artist Catharina Van Hemessen, at The National Gallery, London from 4 March - 30 May 2027.

Van Hemessen & Father brings a forgotten family of artistic pioneers back into the spotlight, thereby rewriting the story of the Antwerp Renaissance from a surprising perspective: that of a painter’s studio where father and children worked together, experimented, and left their m...