16th-century women artists – female painters, miniaturists, manuscript illuminators, calligraphers, engravers and sculptors born between 1500 and 1600.

Asia

China

Ma Shouzhen Ma Shouzhen (; c. 1548–1604), also known by her courtesy name Ma Xianglan (, meaning "Orchid of the Xiang River") and pen name Yuejiao ("Lunar Beauty"), was a Chinese courtesan and artist born in Nanjing during the late Ming dynasty (1550–1 ...

(c. 1548–1604) – Gējì and artist, painter, poet, and composer. *

Xue Susu Xue Susu (; also known as Xue Wu(薛五), Xuesu(薛素), Sujun among other pen names) (1564–1650? C.E.) was a Chinese courtesan. Known as one of the "Eight Great Courtesans of the Ming Dynasty", she was an accomplished painter and poet, and ...

(c.1564–1650? C.E.) – Gējì, poet, painter, archer. *

Qiu Zhu Qiu Zhu (; ), commonly known as Miss Qiu and by her art name Duling Neishi (), was a Chinese painter during the Ming dynasty, noted for paintings with figures (rather than landscapes), including several depictions of the goddess Guanyin. Life ...

(fl. 1565–1585) – painter, daughter of painter Qiu Ying.

Japan

* Ono Otsū (1559 or 1568–1631) – noblewoman, calligrapher, poet, painter and musician.

Europe

Italy

:See: List of Italian Renaissance female artists

Netherlands

Marguerite Scheppers Marguerite Scheppers was a Dutch painter. She was a miniaturist and known for her illuminations she performed in a number of nunneries such as in the couvent des sœurs de Notre-Dame and couvent des sœurs de Sion, though she was not herself a ...

(active from 1501 onward) – miniaturist. * (d. 1540) – miniaturist, pupil of Marguerite Scheppers * Susannah Hornebolt (1503–c. 1554) – daughter of painter

Gerard Hornebolt Gerard Horenbout (c. 1465–c. 1541) was a Flemish miniaturist, a late example of the miniature tradition in Early Netherlandish painting. He is "likely and widely accepted" to be the Master of James IV of Scotland. Biography Horenbout lived a ...

, gentlewoman attendant to queen Jane Seymour. First known female artist in England. * Levina Teerlinc (1510s – 23 June 1576) – miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court. Daughter of painter Simon Bening. * Mayken Verhulst (1518–1596 or 1599) – painter, miniaturist. Wife of painter Pieter Coecke van Aelst, mother-in-law of Pieter Brueghel the Elder, the first teacher of her grandsons Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder. *

Mechtelt van Lichtenberg Mechtelt van Lichtenberg (ca. 1520 – 1598), also known as Mechtelt toe Boecop, was a 16th century Dutch painter and one of the few northern female Dutch painters of the period whose name is known. Family Mechtelt (sometimes spelled Mechteld) ...

(ca. 1520–1598) * Catharina van Hemessen (1527–1587) – daughter of painter Jan Sanders van Hemessen. * (before 1551 – after 1610) – daughter of female painter of

* (1551 – after 1629) – daughter of female painter of

* Anna van Cronenburg (1552 – after 1590) – relative of painter Adriaan van Cronenburg. * Colette van den Keere (1568–1629) – engraver, daughter of foundry artist Hendrik van den Keere * Anna Roemersdr. Visscher (1584–1652) – artist, poet, translator, glass engraver. * Clara Peeters (1589–1657?) * Anna Tymansdr. Steyn (1589–1618) – calligrapher * Maria Tesselschade Visscher (1594–1649) – poet and glass engraver.

British Isles

* Jane Segar (?) – sister of William Segar, manuscript illuminator *

Elizabeth Lucar Elizabeth Lucar (née Withypoll; 1510 – 29 October 1537) was an English calligrapher. In addition to her calligraphic skills she was fluent in Latin, Spanish, and Italian, and was an accomplished musician, needleworker and algorism, algoris ...

(1510–1537) – calligrapher * Esther Inglis (1571–1624), worked in Scotland. * Anne Gulliver, wife of court painter John Brown (d. 1532)Tanja L. Jones (ed.). Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe. c. 1450–1700. P. 19 * Alice Herne, wife of court painter William Herne (or Heron, d. 1580) ''Flemish females at Tudor court':'' * Susannah Hornebolt (1503–c. 1554) – daughter of painter

France

* Suzanne de Court (fl. 1600) – enamel painter in the Limoges workshops, possibly the daughter of Jean de Court

Sweden

* Anna Swenonis (d. 1527) – nun, manuscript illuminator

Switzerland

* Eva Abyberg (1588–1669)

Books

* Weidner, M.S
Views from Jade Terrace : Chinese women artists, 1300–1912
* Yuho, Tseng
“Women Painters of the Ming Dynasty.”
Artibus Asiae, vol. 53, no. 1/2, 1993, pp. 249–61. * “Splendid Japanese Women Artists of the Edo Period”. Special Exhibition on the 120th Anniversary of Jissen Women's Educational Institute, at the Kōsetsu Memorial Museum, Tokyo, April 18–June 21, 2015 * Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550–1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976 * Heller, Nancy. Women Artists: An Illustrated History. New York: Abbeville Press, 1997. ISBN 0-7892-0345-6 * J. Dabbs (ed.), ''Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550–1800. An Anthology'' (Farnham 2009).

References

{{reflist * Lists of women artists