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Christina Rossetti

Poetess of the Spiritual Life

Actress Adah Isaacs Menken was noted as a woman of extraordinary beauty, culture, and brilliancy. She was famous for her marriages and divorces, and a volume of poetry by her was published as Infelicia (1868).

Grace Cossington Smith

She was a pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and her work is greatly sought after.

Marion Louisa Holmes

A leading charity worker and artist in Western Australia from the 1890s to the 1910s

Beverly Knight

Elected to the board of the Essendon Football Club in 1993, she was the first woman to hold that position at an Australian Football League (AFL) club. Knight is also well know for the leading role she has taken in bringing the work of Aboriginal artists to public notice. She is a former president of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association and helped develop a code of conduct to protect Aboriginal artists from exploitative dealers.

Marie Tussaud

Founder of the famous “Madame Tussaud’s Exhibition” of wax figures in London.

Anne Killigrew

English artist and poetess

Jeanne de Pompodour

Influential mistress of King Louis XV

Hélène Bertaux

French sculptor, founder and president of the Society of Woman Painters and Sculptors, and for fifteen years was a member of the jury on sculpture in the Society of French Artists.

Rosalba Carriera

Italian miniature and portrait painter