Margaretha van Godewijk (30 or 31 August 1627, Dordrecht – 2 November 1677, Dordrecht), was a Dutch Golden Age poet and painter.
Biography According to Houbraken her father was a teacher at the Latin school in Dordrecht who taught her Greek, Latin, Italian, French and English. She could understand Hebrew, and was clever at making rhymes. Margarita Godewyk Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature She learned to paint from Nicolaes Maes and was skilled at painting landscapes, villas, houses, flowers and all sorts of ships, in oils, watercolours, and embroidery. She was also good at astronomy and making diamond engravings on glass (roemers). Houbraken quoted the Dordrecht writer Mathias Balen (1611–1691), who published a history of Dordrecht that included various famous women.Famous women in Mathias Balen's History of Dordrecht, 1677, on Google books
According to the RKD she was a pupil of Cornelis Bisschop and became a flower painter, but no works survive.Margaretha van Godewijk in the RKD
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