Jeanne de Pompodour
Influential mistress of King Louis XV
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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
Dora d’Istria
Romanian author, translator feminist, painter, scholar and mountaineer
Harriet Hosmer
American sculptor and innovator
Fanny Osborne
From both scientific and artistic points of view, Fanny Osborne’s paintings of the flowers of the indigenous trees, shrubs, vines and herbs of Great Barrier are exceptional and superbly crafted examples of botanical illustration. They
Marianne North
English naturalist and flower-painter
Vinnie Ream
The first woman sculptor to receive an order from the United States government for a statue.
Martha King
Martha King was New Zealand’s first resident botanical artist.
Edith Stanway Halcombe
Edith Halcombe was versatile and capable in the frontier environment, and her promotion of Jersey cattle contributed to the success of New Zealand’s dairy industry. Professional tuition gave her the ability to make a competent record of the changing landscapes in which she lived. Her paintings and drawings are held in public collections in New Zealand and Australia.