List of 18th-century women artists explained
18th-century women artists – female painters, miniaturists, calligraphers, engravers and sculptors who were active in 18th century (born between 1680 and 1800).
Asia
China
- Lin Yining (1655 – c. 1730) – poet and painter
- Chen Shu (1660–1735) – first female painter of Qing dynasty, painter's daughter.
India
Japan
Americas
Europe
Austria
Belgium
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Germany
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Italy
Born in 17th century:
Born in 18th century:
- Eleonora Bargili (?) – nun
- Teresa Berenice Vitelli, Suor Veronica, (active 1706 – 1729) - nun
- Celeste Tanfani (active between 1735 and 1737)
- Margarita Gabassi (active mid-18th-century)
- Luigia Maria Rosa Alboni (d. 1759) - daughter of painter Paolo Alboni
- Carlotta Amigoni - sister of Jacopo Amigoni.
- Caterina Amigoni Castellini - Italian pastellist living in Spain, daughter of painter Jacopo Amigoni. Her sister signora Belluomini was also painter.
- Marianna Carlevarijs (1703 – 1750) - daughter of painter Luca Carlevarijs.
- Maria Felice Tibaldi (1707–1770) - portrait painter, wife of Pierre Subleyras. Her sisters, Teresa and Isabela were also artists in the same genre.
- Violante Beatrice Siries (1709–1783) - portrait painter, teacher
- Vittoria Ligari (1713-1783) - daughter of painter Pietro Ligari.
- Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-1774) - anatomist and anatomical wax modeler, wife of anatomist Giovanni Manzolini
- Felicità Sartori (c. 1714–1760) - nephew of engraver Antonio dall'Agata, miniaturist, pastellist.
- Giovanna Tacconi Messini (1717–1742)
- Maria Maddalena Baldacci (1718–1782)
- Angelica Le Gru Perotti (1719-1776) - daughter of the portraitist Stefano Le Gru.
- Anna Bacherini Piattoli (Bacherini) (1720–1788)
- Violante Ferroni (1720-?)
- Maria Giacomina Nazari (1724-?) - daughter of the painter Bartolomeo Nazari
- Maria Domenica Scanferla (1726-1763)
- Eleonora Monti (1727 – after 1760) - daughter of painter Francesco Mont
- Anna Caterina Gilli (before 1729 - before 1820)
- Maria Suppioti Ceroni (1730-?) - pastellist.
- Ortensia Poncarale Maggi (1732–1811) - countess, member of Academias
- Anna Galeotti (1739–1773) - engraver and painter.
- Chiara Spinelli (1744-1823) - noblewoman and pastellist.
- Vicenza Giovanna Rovisi (1750 - 1824) - daughter of painter Valentino Rovisi.
- Irene Parenti Duclos (1754–1795) - painter and poet
- Costanza Ghilini (1754–1775) - noble woman, amateur painter.
- Laura Piranesi (1754-1789) - engraver, daughter of Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
- Marianna Candidi Dionigi (1756-1826) - aristocrat, painter, writer and salonnière.
- Rosalba Bernini (1762/3–1829) - pastelist
- Anna Tonelli (c. 1763 – 1846)
- Giuseppina Quaglia Borghese (1764-1831) - pastelist
- Maria Callani (1778-1803) - daughter of artist Gaetano Callani
- Sofia Giordano (1778 – 1829)
- Anna Mignani (1786-1846)
- Ernesta Legnani Bisi (1788-1859) - painter and engraver.
- Mary Grace (died 1799/1800)
- Caterina Cherubini (d. 1811) - miniature painter, poet.
- Teresa Boccardi Nuytz (? -1837) - pastelist
- Maria Molin (?) - pastelist, daughter of senator
- Anna Borghigiani
- Margherita Terzi and her sister Maria - pupils of Rosalba Carriera
Netherlands
Born in 17th century:
- Johanna Vergouwen (1630–1714) – daughter of painter-decorator Louis Vergouwen.
- Catharina Oostfries (1636–1708) – glass painter, sister of glass painter Jozef Oostfries
- Geertgen Wyntges (1636–1712) – flower painter.
- Maria Theresa van Thielen (1640–1706) – daughter of painter Jan Philip van Thielen.
- Sara Saftleven (1645–1702) – flower painter, daughter of the landscape painter Herman Saftleven
- Diana Glauber (1650 – c. 1721) – daughter of the Amsterdam chemist Johann Rudolph Glauber, and the sister of the painters Jan Gotlief and Johannes Glauber
- Joanna Koerten (1650–1715) – excelled in painting, drawing, embroidery, glass etching, and wax modeling
- Cornelia de Rijck (1653–1726) – specialized in painting birds and insects.
- Sophia Holt (1658–1734) – member of Holt-Greve artistic family
- Catarina Ykens (II) (1659–1737 or later) – daughter of the painter Johannes Ykens, geestelycke dochter (spiritual daughter), semi-nun.
- Alida Withoos (c. 1661/62 –1730) – botanical artist and painter, daughter of painter Mathias Withoos.
- Anna Ruysch (1666–1754) – flower painter, daughter of Frederik Ruysch, a botanist and anatomist.
- Aleida Greve (1670–1742) – member of Holt-Greve artistic family
- Maria de Wilde (1682–1729) – engraver and playwright, daughter of collector Jacob de Wilde.
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Russian Empire & Poland
Spain & Portugal
Sweden & Finland
Switzerland
United Kingdom / British Isles
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Born in 18th century:
- Isabella Beetham - British silhouette artist
- Hester Bateman (1708 – 1794) - English silversmith
- Catherine Read (1723-1778) - noblewoman, Scottish painter
- Diana Beauclerk, Diana St John, Viscountess Bolingbroke (1734–1808) - noblewoman, painter
- Emma Crewe (1741 - d. in or after 1795) - noblewoman, British artist known for her designs for Josiah Wedgwood, and for her botanical art.
- Mary Moser (1744–1819). One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy (1768). Daughter of painter George Michael Moser.
- Anne Forbes (1745–1834) - Scottish portrait painter, granddaughter of the portraitist William Aikman
- Elizabeth Upton, Baroness Templetown (1747–1823) - noblewoman, Wedgwood's designer.
- Anne Seymour Damer (1748-1828) - noble, sculptor
- Jane Parminter (1750–1811) and Mary Parminter (1767–1849) - cousins and British travellers and designers
- Frances Douglas, Lady Douglas / Frances Scott (1750-1817) - Scottish amateur artist
- Clara Pope / Clara Wheatley (1750-1838)- painter and botanical artist
- Mary Beilby (c. 1750 – 1797) – enameller and glass-painter in the Beilby glassware family.
- Ann Lee (1753 – c.1790) - British botanical illustrator
- Fanny Blood (1758-1785) - English illustrator and educator.
- Emma Jane Greenland (1760/61-1838) - painter, writer and singer.
- Maria Cosway (1760–1838) - Italian-English painter, musician, and educator
- Helena Beatson (1762–1839) - noblewoman, amateur pastellist from Scotland, niece of artist Catherine Read
- Lavinia Spencer, Countess Spencer (1762 – 1831) - noble, British illustrator.
- Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (1765- 1839)
- Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768-1826)
- Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux (1770-1826) - sister of Marie-Guillemine Benoist
- Elizabeth Liddell (1770 – 1831) - amateur British artist specialising in pastel portrait
- Amelia Long (1772-1837) - noblewoman
- Cassandra Austen (1773 - 1845) - amateur English watercolourist and the elder sister of Jane Austen.
Books
- Babette Bohn, The Antique Heroines of Elisabetta Sirani, in Renaissance Studies, vol. 16, n. 1, Wiley, 2002
- Babette Bohn, Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021
- Dabbs, J (ed.), Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550–1800. An Anthology (Farnham 2009).
- Dabbs, Julia. “Sex, Lies, and Anecdotes: Gender Relations in the Life Stories of Italian Women Artists, 1550–1800,” Aurora, VI (2005): 35.
- Fortunati, Vera, Jordana Pomeroy, and Claudio Strinati, Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque, Milan, Skira, 2007
- Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550–1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976
- Heller, Nancy. Women Artists: An Illustrated History. New York: Abbeville Press, 1997.
- Gaetano Giordani, Notizie delle donne pittrici di Bologna, Bologna, Tipografia Nobili & C., 1832
- Fidière O. Les femmes artistes à l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Paris, 1885
- Jones, Tanja L. (ed.). Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe. c. 1450 – 1700
- Lucas, Martine. Des femmes peintres: du XVe à l'aube du XIXe siècle. Paris, 2015
- Nicholson, Elizabeth S. G. "Diana Scultori." Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque: National Museum of Women in the Arts. Milano: Skira, 2007
- Rocco, Patricia. The Devout Hand: Women, Virtue, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Italy, McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP, 2017
- “Splendid Japanese Women Artists of the Edo Period”. Special Exhibition on the 120th Anniversary of Jissen Women's Educational Institute, at the Kōsetsu Memorial Museum, Tokyo, April 18 – June 21, 2015
- Weidner, M.S. Views from Jade Terrace : Chinese women artists, 1300–1912
- Yuho, Tseng. “Women Painters of the Ming Dynasty.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 53, no. 1/2, 1993, pp. 249–61.
Notes and References
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