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Lily Alexander

British activist, sculptor and painter who travelled internationally

Elizabeth Helen Alexander

British scholar, painter and sculptor

Ella Hean Alexander

British painter and sculptor

Katharine Plunkett

Irish botanical and landscape painter

Florine Stettheimer

A pioneer artist from early twentieth-century New York, Florine Stettheimer advanced new possibilities in painting for women artists.

Josefa de Óbidos

Josefa de Óbidos was the most celebrated female artists in 17th century Portugal.

Judy Chicago was one of the pioneers of Feminist art in the 1970s, a movement that endeavored to reflect women’s lives, call attention to women’s roles as artists, and alter the conditions under which contemporary art was produced and received.

Laura Wheeler Waring

With Edmonia Lewis, Meta Vaux Warrick, and Augusta Savage, Waring is one of the foremost Black American female artists of the first half of the twentieth century.

Lavinia Fontana

Lavinia Fontana belonged to the Bolognese Mannerist school and is thought by many to be the first professional female artist, working on many prestigious private commissions for Bolognese and Roman nobility, and for foreign dignitaries (including the King of Spain).

Louise Moillon

Louise Moillon emerged as one of the most important early 17th century French still life painters.