''Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day'', assembled and edited by
Walter Shaw Sparrow
Walter Shaw Sparrow (1862–1940) was a Welsh writer on art and architecture, with a special interest in British sporting artists. He wrote a series of books on art, architecture and furniture.
Biography Childhood
Sparrow was born in 1862, th ...
, lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of publication.
The purpose of the book was to prove wrong the statement that "the achievements of women painters have been second-rate." The book includes well over 300 images of paintings by over 200 painters, most of whom were born in the 19th century and won medals at various international exhibitions. The book is a useful reference work for anyone studying women's art of the late 19th century.
List of women in the book
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Louise Abbéma
Louise Abbéma (30 October 185329 July 1927) was a French painter, sculptor, and designer of the Belle Époque.
Biography
Abbéma was born in Étampes, Essonne. She was born into a wealthy Parisian family, who were well connected in the local ...
Georges Achille-Fould
Georges Achille-Fould or George-Achille Fould-Stirbey (24 August 1868 – 24 August 1951) was a French painter.
Achille-Fould was born in Asnières-sur-Seine as the daughter of the actress Josephine Wilhelmine Valérie Simonin, better known unde ...
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Helen Allingham
Helen Allingham (née Paterson; 26 September 1848 – 28 September 1926) was a British watercolourist and illustrator of the Victorian era.
Biography
Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson was born on 26 September 1848, at Swadlincote in Derbyshire, ...
Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema
Laura Theresa, Lady Alma-Tadema ( Epps; 16 April 1852 15 August 1909) was an English painter specialising in domestic and genre scenes of women and children. Eighteen of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy. Her husband, Sir Lawr ...
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Sophie Gengembre Anderson
Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823 – 10 March 1903) was a French-born British artist who specialised in genre painting of children and women, typically in rural settings. She began her career as a lithographer and painter of portraits, collaborat ...
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Helen Cordelia Angell
Helen Cordelia Angell, née Coleman (1847 – 1884) was an English watercolour painter.
Biography
Angell was the fifth daughter of the twelve children of Henrietta Dendy and William Thomas Coleman, a physician. She was schooled at home. Along ...
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Sofonisba Anguissola
Sofonisba Anguissola ( – 16 November 1625), also known as Sophonisba Angussola or Sophonisba Anguisciola, was an Italian Renaissance painting, Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a relatively poor noble family. She received a ...
Berthe Art
Berthe Constance Ursule Art (26 December 1857 – 27 February 1934) was a Belgian still life painter.
Biography
She was born in Brussels as the daughter of Ferdinand Art and Constance Luc. She never married and lived and worked on 28 Blanchestra ...
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Gerardina Jacoba van de Sande Bakhuyzen
Gerardina Jacoba van de Sande Bakhuyzen (July 27, 1826–September 19, 1895), was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Biography
She was born into a family of painters in The Hague to Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen and Sop ...
Marie Bashkirtseff
Marie Bashkirtseff (born Mariya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva, russian: Мария Константиновна Башки́рцева; 1858–1884) was a Ukrainian artist from the Russian Empire who worked in Paris, France. She died aged 25.
Li ...
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Jeanna Bauck
Jeanna Bauck (19 August 1840 – 27 May 1926) was a Swedish-German painter known for her landscape and portrait paintings, and her career as an educator, as well as her friendships with Bertha Wegmann and Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Early life
Jea ...
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Amalie Bauerlë
Amalie Mathilde Bauerle (12 November 1873 – 4 March 1916), known as Amelia Bauerle, was a British painter, illustrator and etcher. She also used the name Amelia Matilda Bowerley.
Life
Bauerle was born in the Bayswater area of London, the ...
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Mary Beale
Mary Beale (; 26 March 1633 8 October 1699) was an English portrait painter. She was part of a small band of female professional artists working in London. Beale became the main financial provider for her family through her professional work ...
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Lady Diana Beauclerk
Lady Diana Beauclerk (''née'' Lady Diana Spencer; other married name Diana St John, Viscountess Bolingbroke; 24 March 1734 – 1 August 1808) was an English noblewoman and artist.
Early life
Beauclerk was born into the Spencer family as the da ...
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Cecilia Beaux
Eliza Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942) was an American society portraitist, whose subjects included First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau.
Trained in Philadelphia, she went on to study in ...
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Ana Bešlić
Ana Bešlić (; 16 March 1912, Šarapusta near Bajmok – 27 February 2008, Belgrade) was a Serbian sculptor.
Biography
She was born in a Sárapuszta (modern-day Šarapusta) near the Bačkan town of Bajmok, between Sombor and Subotica, at tha ...
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Marie-Guillemine Benoist
Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux (December 18, 1768 – October 8, 1826), was a French neoclassical, historical, and genre painter.
Biography
Benoist was born in Paris, the daughter of a civil servant. Her tr ...
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Marie Bilders-van Bosse
Maria Philippina (Marie) Bilders-van Bosse (Amsterdam, 21 February 1837 – Wiesbaden, 11 July 1900) was a painter, famous for her landscape paintings in an early Dutch-impressionist style.
Biography
Marie van Bosse was a daughter of Piet ...
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Lily Blatherwick
Lily Blatherwick (1854–26 November 1934) was an English painter.
Biography
Blatherwick was born in Richmond upon Thames and exhibited her works from 1877 at the Royal Academy. Her father, Charles Blatherwick, was a doctor and keen amateur wate ...
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Tina Blau
Tina Blau, later Tina Blau-Lang (15 November 1845 – 31 October 1916) was an Austrian landscape painter.
Life
Blau's father was a doctor in the and was very supportive of her desire to become a painter. She took lessons, successively, with ...
Kossa Bokchan
Kossa Bokchan ( sr-cyr, Косара Бокшан, January 1, 1925 in Berlin – November 21, 2009 in Belgrade) was a Serbian painter who lived in Paris. She married Petar OmAiikus (Pierre Omcikous).
Education
In 1928, when Bokchan was thr ...
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Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals ( animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include '' Ploughing in the Nivernais'', fi ...
Louise Breslau
Louise Catherine Breslau (6 December 1856 – 12 May 1927) was a German-born Swiss painter, who learned drawing to pass the time while bedridden with chronic asthma. She studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris, and exhibited at the salon of t ...
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (December 10, 1850 – August 5, 1936) was an American painter, designer, etcher, commercial artist and illustrator. Brownscombe studied art for years in the United States and in Paris. She was a founding member, studen ...
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Anne Frances Byrne
Anne Frances Byrne (1775–1837) was a British watercolor painter. Her subject material consisted mainly of birds, fruit and flowers painted in a realistic style. Anne came from a family of artists and occasionally butted heads with her contempo ...
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Katharine Cameron
Katharine Cameron RWS RE (26 February 1874 – 1965) was a Scottish artist, watercolourist, and printmaker, best known for her paintings and etchings of flowers. She was associated with the group of artists known as the Glasgow Girls.
Early ...
Margaret Sarah Carpenter
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Early life
C ...
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Madeleine Carpentier
Madeleine Carpentier (3 February 1865 – 13 September 1949) was a French painter.
She was born in Paris and became a pupil of Adrien Bonnefoy and later studied under Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian.Rosalba Carriera
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Mary Cassatt
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Marian Emma Chase
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Life
Chase was bor ...
Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet
Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet (née Gabiou; died 18 April 1832) was a French painter and the wife of the sculptor Antoine Denis Chaudet.
After the death of her first husband in 1810, she married, secondly, in 1812, to Pierre-Arsène Denis Husson, a ...
Jacqueline Comerre-Paton
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Comerre-Paton was born in Paris. Her mother was Émilie-Thérèse Paton (1820 - 1887), kn ...
Maria Cosway
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Evelyn De Morgan
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Virginie Demont-Breton
Virginie Élodie Marie Thérèse Demont-Breton (26 July 1859, Courrières – 10 January 1935, Paris) was a French painter.
Biography
Her father Jules Breton and her uncle Émile Breton were both well-known painters. Through her father she ...
Victoria Dubourg
Victoria Dubourg or Victoria Fantin-Latour (1 December 1840 – 30 September 1926) was a French still life painter.
Dubourg was born in Paris and trained with artist Fanny Chéron.Victoria Dubourg in the RKD There, she met the painter Henri Fant ...
Maud Earl
Maud Alice Earl (1863-1943) was a British-American artist, known for her canine paintings. Her works are much enjoyed by dog enthusiasts and also accurately record many breeds.
Biography
Alice Maud Earl was born in Marylebone, London, to Georg ...
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Marie Ellenrieder
Marie Ellenrieder (20 March 1791 – 5 June 1863) was a German painter known for her portraits and religious paintings.
Life and career
Ellenrieder was born in Konstanz, Germany in 1791, the daughter of Konrad and Anna Maria Herrmann, and ...
Rosalie Filleul
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Lavinia Fontana
Lavinia Fontana (August 24, 1552 – August 11, 1614) was a Bologna, Bolognese Mannerism, Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome. She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious pai ...
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (25 January 1872 – 10 March 1945) was an English artist known for her paintings, book illustrations, and a number of works in stained glass.
Life
Fortescue-Brickdale was born at her parents' house, Birchamp Vil ...
Elizabeth Jane Gardner
Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau (October 4, 1837 – January 28, 1922) was an American academic and salon painter, who was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. She was an American expatriate who died in Paris where she had lived most of her life. ...
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Artemisia Gentileschi
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Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe
Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe (5 April 1868 – 15 November 1939) was a Belgian painter who mostly worked in watercolors.
Gilsoul-Hoppe was born in Düsseldorf as the daughter of the engraver Edouard Hoppe. She trained in Bisschoffsheim school in Brussels ...
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Marie-Éléonore Godefroid
Marie-Éléonore Godefroid (20 June 1778 in Paris – 1849), was a French painter, watercolorist, pastellist, and draughtswoman. Some of her major works include ''Portraits of the Children of Marshall Duke d'Enghien (1810), Portrait of Queen ...
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Eva Gonzalès
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Kate Greenaway
Catherine Greenaway (17 March 18466 November 1901) was an English Victorian artist and writer, known for her
children's book illustrations. She received her education in graphic design and art between 1858 and 1871 from the Finsbury School of ...
Gertrude Demain Hammond
Gertrude Demain Hammond or Mrs. McMurdie (1862 – 21 July 1952) was a British painter and children's book illustrator.
Hammond was born in Brixton. She is known for graphic design and typography, and exhibited from 1886 in London at the Royal ...
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Emily Hart
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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot
Antoinette-Cécile-Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French painter, mainly of genre scenes. A native of Paris, she began studies with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, a popular history painter and family frien ...
Catharina van Hemessen
Caterina or Catharina van Hemessen (1528 – after 1565) was a Flemish Renaissance painter. She is the earliest female Flemish painter for whom there is verifiable extant work. She is mainly known for a series of small-scale female portrai ...
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Matilda Heming
Matilda Heming, née Lowry (1796–1855) was a British watercolourist.
Biography
Heming was born in London, England. She was the daughter of Wilson Lowry. The engraver Joseph Wilson Lowry was her younger half-brother. She is known for water ...
Dora Hitz
Dora Hitz (30 March 1856, Altdorf bei Nürnberg - 20 November 1924, Berlin) was a Court Painter to the Romanian Royal Family, a member of the November Group and co-founder of the Berlin Secession.
Life
When she was six years old, her family ...
Adrienne van Hogendorp-s' Jacob
Adrienne Jacqueline-'s Jacob or Adrienne van Hogendorp (28 January 1857 – 19 September 1920) was a Dutch still life painter.
Jacob was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (modern-day Jakarta) to Dutch parents. She trained as a painter with Mart ...
Barbara Elisabeth van Houten
Barbara Elisabeth van Houten (8 April 1863 – 27 May 1950) was a Dutch painter.
Biography
Houten was born in Groningen and studied at the École du Louvre in Paris before finishing her studies under August Allebé at the Rijksacademie voor ...
Julia Beatrice How
Julia Beatrice How (16 October 1867 – 19 August 1932) was a British painter active in France.
Biography
How was born in Bideford, Devon to a family of silversmiths. She was the youngest of her family, and both of her parents died before she ...
Helen Hyde
Helen Hyde (April 6, 1868 – May 13, 1919) was an American etcher and engraver. She is best known for her color etching process and woodblock prints reflecting Japanese women and children characterizations.
Life
Born in Lima, New York, Hyde spe ...
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Katarina Ivanović
Katarina Ivanović (1811–1882) was a Serbian painter from the Austrian Empire (later Hungary in Austria-Hungary). She is regarded as the first Serbian female painter in modern art history.
Biography
Ivanović was born in Veszprém in the Austr ...
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Infanta María de la Paz of Spain
Infanta María de la Paz of Spain (23 June 1862 – 4 December 1946) was a Spanish infanta. A daughter of Queen Isabella II, she married her cousin Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria. She lived the rest of her life in Germany, dedicating her tim ...
Blanche Jenkins
Blanche Jenkins (active 1872–1915) was a British portrait painter.
Life
Jenkins was active as an exhibitor at the Society of British Artists and at the Royal Academy, where she showed some 49 works from 1872 onwards. She was also a member of ...
Olga Jevrić
Olga Jevrić (29 September 1922 – 10 February 2014) was a Serbian sculptor.
Biography
Olga Jevrić was born in Belgrade in 1922. In 1941 she graduated from high school, but initially failed the entrance exam to study in the Sculpture departmen ...
Mina Karadžić
Wilhelmina "Mina" Karadžić-Vukomanović ( sr-cyr, Вилхелмина "Мина" Караџић-Вукомановић; 12 July 1828, in Vienna – 12 June 1894, in ''ibidem'') was an Austrian-born Serbian painter and writer.
She was born in ...
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Angelica Kauffman
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann ( ; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, K ...
Jessie M. King
Jessie Marion King (20 March 1875 – 3 August 1949) was a Scottish illustrator known for her illustrated children's books. She also designed bookplates, jewellery and fabric, and painted pottery. King was one of the artists known as the Glas ...
Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz ( born as Schmidt; 8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including ''The Weavers'' and ''T ...
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Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (née Labille; 11 April 1749 – 24 April 1803), also known as Adélaïde Labille-Guiard des Vertus, was a French miniaturist and portrait painter. She was an advocate for women to receive the same opportunities as men ...
Judith Leyster
Judith Jans Leyster (also Leijster; baptised July 28, 1609Molenaer, JudithNational Gallery of Art website. Accessed February 1, 2014. – February 10, 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, portraits, and still lifes. Her work was h ...
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Barbara Longhi
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Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
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In her public life, she was a strong proponent of the arts and highe ...
Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy
Princess Elisabeth Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy (born as ''Brachfeld Vilma Erzsébet'', Hajdúdorog, 15 April 1863 - New York, 28 August 1923) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian-born portrait painter who worked in Germany and the United States. She is kno ...
Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
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Madeline Marrable
Madeline Francis Jane Marrable, née Cockburn (20 July 1833 – 26 April 1916) was a prolific London based watercolourist and oil painter specialising in landscapes with a preference for mountains and snowscapes. She traveled widely to places i ...
Constance Mayer
Marie-Françoise Constance Mayer La Martinière (9 March 1775 – 26 May 1821) was a French painter of portraits, Allegory, allegorical subjects, Portrait miniature, miniatures and genre works. She had "a brilliant but bitter career."Petteys, Ch ...
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Anne Mee
Anne Mee, née Foldsone (1765–1851) was a prolific English miniature painter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Life
The eldest child of John Foldsone, she was educated at Madame Pomier's school in Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London. ...
Georgette Meunier
Georgette Meunier (October 7, 1859 – 1951) was a Belgium, Belgian still life painter.
She was born in Brussels as the daughter of the engraver Jan-Baptiste Meunier, and the older sister of the painter Marc-Henry Meunier. Her father was the ol ...
Berthe Morisot
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (; January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the highly es ...
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Mary Moser
Mary Moser (27 October 1744 – 2 May 1819) was an English painter and one of the most celebrated female artists of 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768 (along with Angelica Kauffman), Mose ...
Beatrice Offor
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Life
Offor was born in 1864 in Sydenham, Kent and trained at the Slade School of Art in London, where she became a close fri ...
Nadežda Petrović
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Zora Petrović
Zora Petrović ( Dobrica, May 17, 1894 – Belgrade, May 25, 1962) was a Serbian painter. Her notable works can be seen in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, and in Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection in Novi Sad.
Biography
She attend ...
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Constance Phillott
Constance Phillott (1842 – 30 March 1931) was a British painter.
Phillott was born in Bloomsbury, London. She was the second daughter of Arthur Phillott (1813-1853), a physician, and Frances Caroline Frend (1811-1912). Her mother, who died ag ...
Henrietta Rae
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Suor Barbara Ragnoni
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Her signed painting, ''The Adoration of t ...
Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte
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Real del Sarte was born in Paris as the daughter of François Delsarte, and attended the Académie Julian from 1874 where she was taught by Gustav ...
Juana Romani
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Biography
She was born in Velletri. At the age of ten, she went to Paris with her mother and stepfather, Temis ...
Jeanne Rongier
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Rongier was born in Mâcon where she took lessons from Henri Senart.Jeanne Rongier in the RKD She later took lessons from Henri Joseph Harpignies, and Evariste Vital ...
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Henriëtte Ronner-Knip
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Biography
She was born in Amsterdam into a family of artists and received he ...
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Baroness Lambert de Rothschild
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Sophie Rude
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People with the name Born in the Middle Ages
* Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson
* Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess o ...
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Rachel Ruysch
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Eugénie Salanson
Eugénie Alexandrine Marie Salanson (15 December 1836, Albert - 23 July 1912, Saint-Pair-sur-Mer) was a French painter in the Academic style.
Biography
Her father came from Ispagnac to Albert to serve as a tariff collector. The family later ...
Helene Schjerfbeck
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Thérèse Schwartze
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Life
Thérèse Schwartze was born on 20 December 1851 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She was the daughter of the painter Johan Georg ...
Elisabetta Sirani
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M. E. Edwards Staples
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Biography
Early life
Mary Ellen Edwards was born ...
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Louisa Starr
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Biography
Starr was born in London and lived on Russell Square when she became a copyist at the British Museum.Marianne Stokes
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Elizabeth Upton, Baroness Templetown
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Elizabeth Thompson
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Frédérique Vallet-Bisson
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Vallet-Bisson was born in Amiens but moved to Paris, where she became a pupil of Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian.Caroline de Valory
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Robert Nanteuil
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He was born in Reims in 1623,
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Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
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Beta Vukanović
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Born in Bamberg, Upper Franconia
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Caroline Watson
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The daughter of the Irish engraver James Watson (engraver), James Watson, she was born in London in 1760 or 1761, and studied under her father, who worked in mezzotint. She was ...
Julie Wolfthorn
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Life
Wolfthorn was bor ...