Maria Theresia van Thielen (7 May 1640–1706) was a Flemish Baroque

Flemish Baroque painting

Flemish Baroque painting is the art produced in the Southern Netherlands between about 1585, when the Dutch Republic was split from the Habsburg Spain regions to the south by the recapturing of Antwerp by the Spanish, until about 1700, when Habsburg authority ended with the death of King Charles II...

 painter.

Biography

Maria van Thielen was born into an artistic patrician family. According to Houbraken, she competed with her sisters Anna Maria and Francoise Katharina and was very successful. The sister Anna may well have been her aunt Anna, however, who married the painter Theodoor Rombouts

Theodoor Rombouts

Theodoor Rombouts was a Flemish Baroque painter specializing in Caravaggesque genre scenes of card players and musicians.-Biography:...

. The three women learned flower painting from their father, Jan Philip van Thielen. Maria's work is in the same style as her father, and probably much of her work has been attributed to him.

She signed her works M.T.Van THIELEN.F. She painted two flower pieces in her father's style for the city hall of Mechelen, one of which is signed and dated 1664.

According to Cornelis de Bie

Cornelis de Bie

Cornelis de Bie was a Brabant rederijker, poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier.He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies...

 in his Het Gulden Cabinet

Het Gulden Cabinet

The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Free Art of Painting, or Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const, as it was originally known in Dutch, is a series of artist biographies and panegyrics with engraved portraits written by the 17th century notary and rederijker Cornelis de Bie...

also her two sisters were painters.