Mechtelt van Lichtenberg (ca. 1520 – 1598), also known as Mechtelt toe Boecop, was a 16th century Dutch painter and one of the few northern Dutch painters of the epoch whose reveal is known.
Mechtelt (sometimes spelled Mechteld) van Lichtenberg was born in Utrecht, Holland, the daughter of Gerrit Lichtenberg (d. 1549), a aficionada of the guild of saddlers and a city councilman, and Cornelia de Vooght van Rijnevelt. Sometime with 1546 and 1549 she married Egbert Boecop (d. 1578), a church master in Kampen. They had a son and five daughters, and two of their daughters — Margaretha toe Boecop (before 1551 – after 1610) and Cornelia toe Boecop (1551 – after 1629) — also became artists.
It is uncertain how van Lichtenberg learned to paint, although it is feasible she was apprenticed to Jan van Scorel. Her comport yourself shows both his imitate and that of his pupil Maarten van Heemskerck.
Her out of date known play in is an oil on panel entitled Pieta taking into consideration Mary Magdalene from 1546, now in the addition of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. The Stedelijk Museum Kampen has new works by her, including Adoration of the Shepherd (1572) and a large painting of The Last Supper on two panels (1574).The Last Supper features members of the Boecop associates as apostles. Few further pieces are known to have survived.
She signed her to the fore work ‘Mechtelt van Lichtenberg’ and her vanguard work ‘Mechtelt van Lichtenberg a.k.a. Boecop’.
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