''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

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 ...

* Madame Abran ( Marthe Abran, 1866-1908) *

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 ...

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, ...

* Anna Alma-Tadema *

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* Christine Angus *

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 ...

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 ...

* Antonia de Bañuelos * Rose Maynard Barton *

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 � ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* Nelly Bodenheim *

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 ...

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 ...

* Mlle. Bouillier *Madame Bovi * Olga Boznanska *

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 ...

* Elena Brockmann *

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 ...

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 ...

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 Cameron (Mary Margaret Cameron) * Marie Gabrielle Capet *

Margaret Sarah Carpenter Margaret Sarah Carpenter (''née'' Geddes; 1793 – 13 November 1872) was an English painter. Noted in her time, she mostly painted portraits in the manner of Sir Thomas Lawrence. She was a close friend of Richard Parkes Bonington. Early life C ...

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 Rosalba Carriera (12 January 1673 – 15 April 1757) was a Venetian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. Carriera would later become known for her pastel portraits, helping popularize the medium in eighte ...

Mary Cassatt Mary Stevenson Cassatt (; May 22, 1844June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar De ...

* Marie Cazin * Francine Charderon *

Marian Emma Chase Marian Emma Chase (1844–1905) was a British painter, water colour artist and draftsperson. She is best known for her flower, fruit and still-life watercolour paintings. The Victoria and Albert Museum holds one of her works. Life Chase was bor ...

* Zoé-Laure de Chatillon *

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 ...

* Lilian Cheviot * Mlle. Claudie * Christabel Cockerell * Marie Amélie Cogniet * Uranie Alphonsine Colin-Libour *

Jacqueline Comerre-Paton Jacqueline Comerre, née Paton (1 May 1859 – 1955) was a French painter and sculptor, and the wife of the painter Léon-François Comerre (1850-1916). Comerre-Paton was born in Paris. Her mother was Émilie-Thérèse Paton (1820 - 1887), kn ...

* Cornelia Conant * Delphine Arnould de Cool-Fortin * Diana Coomans *

Maria Cosway Maria Luisa Caterina Cecilia Cosway (ma-RYE-ah; née Hadfield; 11 June 1760 – 5 January 1838) was an Italian-English painter, musician, and educator. She worked in England, in France, and later in Italy, cultivating a large circle of friends a ...

* Amelia Curran * Louise Danse * Héléna Arsène Darmesteter * Maria Davids * Césarine Davin-Mirvault *

Evelyn De Morgan Evelyn De Morgan (30 August 1855 – 2 May 1919), née Pickering, was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and working in a range of styles including Aestheticism and Symbolis ...

* Jane Mary Dealy *

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 ...

* Marie Destrée-Danse * Margaret Isabel Dicksee * Agnese Dolci * Angèle Dubos *

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 ...

* Clémentine-Hélène Dufau * Mary Elizabeth Duffield-Rosenberg *

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 ...

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 ...

* Alix-Louise Enault * Alice Maud Fanner * Catherine Maria Fanshawe * Jeanne Fichel *

Rosalie Filleul Rosalie Filleul (1752 – June 24, 1794) was a French pastellist and painter. She was born in Paris, and was concierge of the Château de la Muette. Although she initially supported the French Revolution, she nevertheless became disillusioned b ...

* Fanny Fleury * Julia Bracewell Folkard *

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 ...

* Elizabeth Adela Forbes *

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 ...

* Consuélo Fould * Empress Frederick of Germany *

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. ...

Artemisia Gentileschi Artemisia Lomi or Artemisia Gentileschi (, ; 8 July 1593) was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing profess ...

* Diana Ghisi *

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 ...

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 ...

Eva Gonzalès Eva Gonzalès (April 19, 1849 – May 6, 1883) was a French Impressionist painter. She was one of the four most notable female Impressionists in the nineteenth century, along with Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Berthe Morisot (1841-95), and Mar ...

* Maude Goodman * Mary L. Gow *

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 ...

* Rosina Mantovani Gutti *

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 ...

Emily Hart Emily Anne Hart is an American former actress. She is the younger sister of actress Melissa Joan Hart and is best known for her roles as Sabrina Spellman in ''Sabrina: The Animated Series'' and Amanda Wiccan in ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 ...

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 ...

* Alice Havers * Ivy Heitland *

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 ...

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 ...

* Mrs. John Herford * Emma Herland * E. Baily Hilda *

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 ...

* A. M. Hobson *

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 ...

* Lady Holroyd * Amelia Hotham * M. J. A. Houdon * Joséphine Houssaye *

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 ...

* Sina Mesdag van Houten *

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 ...

* Mary Young Hunter *

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* Olga Jančić *

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 ...

* Marie Jensen *

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 ...

* Louisa Jopling * Ljubinka Jovanović *

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 ...

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 ...

* Lucy E. Kemp-Welch *

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 ...

* Elisa Koch *

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 ...

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 ...

* Ethel Larcombe * Hermine Laucota * Madame Le Roy * Louise-Émilie Leleux-Giraud *

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 ...

Barbara Longhi Barbara Longhi (, ; 21 September 1552 – 23 December 1638) was an Italian painter. She was much admired in her lifetime as a portraitist, although most of her portraits are now lost or unattributed. Her work, such as her many Madonna and Child p ...

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, (Louisa Caroline Alberta; 18 March 1848 – 3 December 1939) was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In her public life, she was a strong proponent of the arts and highe ...

* Marie Seymour Lucas * Marie Lucas Robiquet *

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 ...

* Ann Macbeth * Biddie Macdonald * Jessie Macgregor *

Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland Marion Margaret Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (''née'' Lindsay; 7 March 1856 – 22 December 1937) was a British artist and noblewoman. A granddaughter of the 24th Earl of Crawford, she married Henry Manners in 1882. She was styled the ...

* E. Marcotte * Ana Marinković *

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 ...

* Edith Martineau * Caroline de Maupeou *

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 ...

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. ...

* Margaret Meen * Maria S. Merian * Anna Lea Merritt *

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 ...

* Eulalie Morin *

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 ...

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 ...

* Marie Nicolas *

Beatrice Offor Beatrice Offor (1864–1920) was a British painter. She is primarily known for portraits; often of an esoteric nature. 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 ...

* Adeline Oppenheim Guimard * Blanche Paymal-Amouroux * Marie Petiet *

Nadežda Petrović Nadežda Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Надежда Петровић; 11/12 October 1873 – 3 April 1915) was a Serbian painter and one of the women war photography pioneers in the region. Considered Serbia's most famous expressionist and fauvist, ...

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 ...

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 ...

* Maria Katharina Prestel *

Henrietta Rae Henrietta Emma Ratcliffe Rae (30 December 1859 – 26 January 1928) was a British painter of the late Victorian era,Arthur Fish''Henrietta Rae (Mrs. Ernest Normand)'' London, Cassell & Co., 1905. who specialised in classical, allegorical and lite ...

Suor Barbara Ragnoni Suor Barbara Ragnoni (1448–1533)Nouvelles sources et nouvelles méthodologies de recherche dans les études sur les femmes, Harmattan, 2004 was an Italian artist for whom only one work remains extant. Her signed painting, ''The Adoration of t ...

* Catharine Read *

Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte or Real del Sarte (1853 – 1927) was a French painter and model. 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 ...

* Flora Macdonald Reid * Maria G. Silva Reis * Mrs. J. Robertson * Suze Robertson * Ottilie Roederstein *

Juana Romani Juana Romani, née Carolina Carlesimo (30 April 1867 – 1923/24) was an Italian-born French portrait painter and artists' model. Biography She was born in Velletri. At the age of ten, she went to Paris with her mother and stepfather, Temis ...

* Adèle Romany *

Jeanne Rongier Jeanne Rongier (November 27, 1852 – January 19, 1929) was a French painter. 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 ...

Henriëtte Ronner-Knip Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (31 May 1821 – 2 March 1909) was a Dutch-Belgian artist in the Romantic style who is best known for her animal paintings; especially cats. Biography She was born in Amsterdam into a family of artists and received he ...

Baroness Lambert de Rothschild Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knig ...

Sophie Rude Sophie is a version of the female given name Sophia, meaning "wise". 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 ...

Rachel Ruysch Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750) was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful care ...

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 ...

* Adelaïde Salles-Wagner * Amy Sawyer *

Helene Schjerfbeck Helena Sofia (Helene) Schjerfbeck (; July 10, 1862 – January 23, 1946) was a Finnish painter. A modernist painter, she is known for her realist works and self-portraits, and also for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, he ...

* Félicie Schneider * Anna Maria Schurman *

Thérèse Schwartze Thérèse Schwartze (20 December 185123 December 1918) was a Dutch people, Dutch portrait Painting, painter. Life Thérèse Schwartze was born on 20 December 1851 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She was the daughter of the painter Johan Georg ...

* Doña Stuart Sindici *

Elisabetta Sirani Elisabetta Sirani (8 January 1638 – 28 August 1665) was an Italian Baroque painter and printmaker who died in unexplained circumstances at the age of 27. She was a pioneering female artist in early modern Bologna, who established an academy fo ...

* Sienese Nun Sister A * Sienese Nun Sister B * Minnie Smythe * Élisabeth Sonrel * Lavinia, Countess Spencer *

M. E. Edwards Staples Mary Ellen Edwards (9 November 1838 – 22 December 1934), also known as MEE, was a British artist and illustrator. She contributed to many newspapers, periodicals and children's books. Biography Early life Mary Ellen Edwards was born ...

Louisa Starr Louisa Starr, later Louisa Canziani (1845–25 May 1909), was a British painter. Biography Starr was born in London and lived on Russell Square when she became a copyist at the British Museum.Marianne Stokes Marianne Stokes (née Preindlsberger; 1855–1927) was an Austrian painter. She settled in England after her marriage to Adrian Scott Stokes (1854–1935), the landscape painter, whom she had met in Pont-Aven. Stokes was considered one of the le ...

* Elizabeth Strong * Mary Ann Rankin (Mrs. J. M. Swan) * Annie Louise Swynnerton * E. De Tavernier *

Elizabeth Upton, Baroness Templetown Elizabeth Upton, Baroness Templetown (''née'' Boughton; 1746/47 – September 1823) was an English artist whose designs were used by Josiah Wedgwood the potter. She specialised in detailed cut-paper work which adapted well to Wedgwood's jasperw ...

* Ellen Thesleff *

Elizabeth Thompson Elizabeth Southerden Thompson (3 November 1846 – 2 October 1933), later known as Lady Butler, was a British painter who specialised in painting scenes from British military campaigns and battles, including the Crimean War and the Napoleonic ...

* Maria Tibaldi m. Subleyras *

Frédérique Vallet-Bisson Frédérique Vallet-Bisson (29 April 1862 – 1949) was a French painter and pastellist. 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 *Mlle. de Vanteuil Pastel portrait by

Robert Nanteuil Robert Nanteuil (; 1623 – 9 December 1678) was a French portrait artist: engraver, draughtsman and pastellist to the court of Louis XIV. Life He was born in Reims in 1623, *

Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Ships * HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships * ''Elisabeth'' (s ...

* Caterina Vigri * Vukosava Velimirović * Ana Vidjen * Draginja Vlasic *

Beta Vukanović Beta Vukanović (18 April 1872 – 31 October 1972), also known as Babette Bachmayer, was a Serbian painter and centenarian. Biography Born in Bamberg, Upper Franconia Upper Franconia (german: Oberfranken) is a ''Regierungsbezirk'' (adminis ...

* Louisa Lady Waterford * Hermine Waternau *

Caroline Watson Caroline Watson (1761?–1814) was an English stipple engraver. Life 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 ...

* Cecilia Wentworth * E. Wesmael * Florence White * Maria Wiik *

Julie Wolfthorn Julie Wolfthorn (8 January 1864 – 26 December 1944) was a German painter. Born as Julie Wolf(f) to a middle-class Jewish family, she later styled herself as Julie Wolfthorn after Thorn (Toruń), her city of birth. Life Wolfthorn was bor ...

* Juliette Wytsman * Annie Marie Youngman * Jenny Zillhardt

References

{{reflist Lists of painters 1905 non-fiction books Lists of women artists Biographical dictionaries of women Books about women