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Source: [1] Suzanne de Court (fl. 1600) - enamel painter in the Limoges workshops, possibly the daughter of Jean de Court; Mademoiselle Alée - lace-maker; Louise Moillon (1610 - 1696) - painter of still lifes, of an artist family who were Protestant refugees from the southern Netherlands.
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann (1815–1901), Germany's first professional female photographer with a studio in Leipzig from 1843; Hanna Weil (1921–2011), painter; Gisela Weimann (born 1943), visual artist, feminist; Kaethe Katrin Wenzel (born 1972), contemporary artist; Anna Maria Werner (1688–1753), painter; Anna Werner (born 1941), photographer
First female career artist in Western Europe as she relied on commissions for her income. Marietta Robusti (La Tintoretta) (c.1560–1590) – painter, daughter of Tintoretto; Maria Angelica Razzi (16th century) – sculptor, nun
The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...
3/5 Laura Knight and Artemisia Gentileschi feature among a vast array of little-known female artists in this expansive survey at Tate Britain, but some of the work on display only underlines the ...
Margareta Capsia (1682–1759) – the first professional native female artist in Finland, which during her lifetime was a part of Sweden. Anna Maria Thelott (1683–1710) – an engraver, an illustrator, a woodcut-artist, and a miniaturist painter. Daughter of engraver and watchmaker Philip Jacob Thelott the Elder.