Women Painting Women (artists born before 1900)

Artists featured in this Curation: Catharina van Hemessen (1528–after 1587), Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1535–1625), Catherine Read (1723–1778), Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807), Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), Amelia Curran (1775–1847), Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793–1872), Fanny Geefs (1807–1883), Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), and 40 more See all

50 artworks

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A Lady in Sixteenth-Century Costume c.1548–1549
Catharina van Hemessen (1528–after 1587)
Oil on panel
H 40.9 x W 30.1 cm
The Bowes Museum

Image credit: The Bowes Museum
The Artist's Sister in the Garb of a Nun 1551
Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1535–1625)
Oil on canvas
H 68.5 x W 53.3 cm
Southampton City Art Gallery

Image credit: Southampton City Art Gallery
Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806) 1765
Catherine Read (1723–1778)
Oil on canvas
H 66 x W 54 cm
Dr Johnson's House

Image credit: Dr Johnson's House
The Artist in the Character of Design Listening to the Inspiration of Poetry 1782
Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 61 cm
English Heritage, Kenwood

Image credit: Historic England Archive
Lady Hamilton (1761–1815), as a Bacchante
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842)
Oil on canvas
H 132.5 x W 105.5 cm
Lady Lever Art Gallery

Image credit: Lady Lever Art Gallery
Claire Clairmont (1798–1879) 1819
Amelia Curran (1775–1847)
Oil on canvas
H 47 x W 35 cm
Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

Image credit: Nottingham City Museums & Galleries
Maria Stella Petronilla (1773–1843) c.1830
Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793–1872)
Oil on canvas
H 75.5 x W 62.5 cm
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales

Image credit: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales
Katherine Mary Webb Palmer (1824–1890) 1846
Fanny Geefs (1807–1883)
Oil on canvas
H 171.5 x W 130 cm
Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

Image credit: Nottingham City Museums & Galleries
Portrait of a Woman 1872–1875
Berthe Morisot (1841–1895)
Oil on canvas
H 56 x W 46.1 cm
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Image credit: The Courtauld
Portrait of a Woman 1881–1883
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926)
Oil on canvas
H 99.1 x W 72.4 cm
Birmingham Museums Trust

Image credit: Birmingham Museums Trust
Head of a Woman in A Red Cap
Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1847–1906)
Oil on canvas
H 19.4 x W 25.3 cm
Brighton & Hove Museums

Image credit: Brighton & Hove Museums
Young Girl Sitting in a Deck Chair 1880
Mary Henrietta Dering Curtois (1854–1929)
Oil on canvas
H 45 x W 22 cm
The Collection: Art & Archaeology in Lincolnshire (Usher Gallery)

Image credit: The Collection: Art & Archaeology in Lincolnshire (Usher Gallery)
Reflection in a Mirror 1896
Helena Arsène Darmesteter (1848–1940)
Oil on canvas
H 90 x W 60 cm
Ben Uri Collection

Image credit: Ben Uri Collection
Luna (Moon) 1885
Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919)
Oil on canvas
H 99 x W 84.4 cm
De Morgan Collection

Image credit: De Morgan Collection
A Cornish Fishwife 1904
Flora Macdonald Reid (1860–1945)
Oil on canvas
H 61.4 x W 46.2 cm
Manchester Art Gallery

Image credit: Manchester Art Gallery
Annie Theodosia Wilson (1867/1868–1950), Mrs Charles Francis Benthall 1940
Ethel Walker (1861–1951)
Oil on canvas
H 60 x W 50 cm
National Trust, Benthall Hall

Image credit: National Trust Images
Johanna Hogarth
Ada Elma Alberta Paterson (c.1868–1948)
Oil on canvas
H 71 x W 58 cm
University of Aberdeen

Image credit: University of Aberdeen
Chloë Boughton-Leigh (1868–1947) 1904–8
Gwen John (1876–1939)
Oil on canvas
H 58.4 x W 38.1 cm
Tate

Image credit: Tate
Gypsies on Epsom Downs
Laura Knight (1877–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 75.4 x W 62.8 cm
Dumfries and Galloway Council

© reproduced with permission of the estate of Dame Laura Knight, DBE, RA / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Dumfries and Galloway Council
The Red Dress 1930
Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 73.3 x W 60.5 cm
Brighton & Hove Museums

© estate of Vanessa Bell. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: Brighton & Hove Museums
Cotton Picking c.1960
Clementine Hunter (1887–1988)
Oil on drawing board
H 40.1 x W 60.3 cm
American Museum & Gardens

© Thomas N. Whitehead; Ann & Jack Brittain and children. Image credit: American Museum & Gardens
Emmeline Pankhurst 1927
Georgina Agnes Brackenbury (1865–1949)
Oil on canvas
H 78.7 x W 61.6 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London

Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London
The Terrace outside the Priest's House 1919
Clare Atwood (1866–1962)
Oil on canvas
H 59.5 x W 49.5 cm
National Trust, Smallhythe Place

© the artist's estate. Image credit: National Trust Images
Under the Apple Tree 1896–1898
Bessie MacNicol (1869–1904)
Oil on canvas
H 75.2 x W 64.1 cm
Glasgow Life Museums

Image credit: Glasgow Life Museums
Anna Roslund (1891–1941) 1917
Gabriele Münter (1877–1962)
Oil on canvas
H 94 x W 68 cm
Leicester Museums and Galleries

© DACS 2024. Image credit: Leicester Museums and Galleries
The Printer c.1915
Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881–1968)
Oil on canvas
H 100 x W 74.8 cm
Museum & Art Swindon

© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon
Alone c.1947
Amy Katherine Browning (1881–1978)
Oil on canvas
H 91.8 x W 71.2 cm
Royal Academy of Arts

© Royal Academy of Arts. Image credit: Royal Academy of Arts
The Nurse
Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881–1968)
Oil on canvas
H 156.2 x W 74.6 cm
The Box, Plymouth

© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: The Box, Plymouth
The White Shawl 1925
Beryl Fowler (1880–1963)
Oil on board
H 176.6 x W 67 cm
Laing Art Gallery

© the artist's estate. Image credit: Laing Art Gallery
Gardening 1908
Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962)
Oil on canvas
H 102.9 x W 123.2 cm
Tate

© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2024. Image credit: Tate
Greta
Thérèse Lessore (1884–1945)
Oil on canvas
H 74 x W 61.5 cm
Salford Museum & Art Gallery

Image credit: Salford Museum & Art Gallery
Martha, the Artist's Mother
Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960)
Oil on canvas
H 195 x W 80 cm
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery

© the copyright holder. Image credit: City & County of Swansea: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Collection
Self-Portrait 1923
Hilda Anne Carline (1889–1950)
Oil on canvas
H 74.9 x W 57.8 cm
Tate

Image credit: Tate
Maroon and Gold
Ruth Simpson (1889–1964)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 50.5 cm
Penlee House Gallery & Museum

© the artist's estate. Image credit: Penlee House Gallery & Museum
Hessel Street: Sabbath Cakes to the Baker mid-20th C
Rose Henriques (1889–1972)
Watercolour on paper
H 43.5 x W 60.5 cm
Jewish Museum London

© the artist's estate. Image credit: Jewish Museum London
Portrait of a Young Lady with a Plait
Jill Garnier (1890–1966)
Oil on canvas
H 51 x W 46 cm
Falmouth Art Gallery

© the artist's estate. Image credit: Falmouth Art Gallery
Vienna at Night 1923
Cecile Walton (1891–1956)
Oil on canvas board
H 40 x W 50.4 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
Half-Portrait of a Lady
Dorothy Alicia Lawrenson (1892–1976)
Oil on board
H 32 x W 28 cm
Newlyn Art Gallery

© the copyright holder. Image credit: Newlyn Art Gallery
The Black Coat 1920
Dorothy Johnstone (1892–1980)
Watercolour on paper
H 35.5 x W 23.5 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

© the artist's estate. Image credit: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
Louise Maude, née Shanks (1855–1939)
Doris Boulton-Maude (1893–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 60.2 x W 50.2 cm
Chelmsford Museums

© the artist's estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums
Miss M. Steele 1942
Patricia Preece (1894–1966) or Dorothy Hepworth (1894–1978)
Oil on canvas
H 68.5 x W 50.8 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)

Image credit: IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Eileen in a White Chair 1953
Anne Redpath (1895–1965)
Oil on board
H 92.7 x W 73.7 cm
Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection (Dundee City Council)

© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection (Dundee City Council)
Portrait of a Woman 1942
Cathleen Mann (1896–1959)
Oil on canvas
H 74.5 x W 61.6 cm
CW+

© the artist's estate. Image credit: CW+
Frau Im Café (Woman in a Café: Lotte Fischler) 1939
Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993)
Oil on paper on board
H 81.5 x W 53.5 cm
Leicester Museums and Galleries

© DACS 2024. Image credit: Leicester Museums and Galleries
A Day among the Crocuses
Gladys Cooper (1899–1975)
Oil on board
H 52 x W 60 cm
The Whitworth, The University of Manchester

© the copyright holder. Image credit: The Whitworth, The University of Manchester
Woman in a Boat on the River at St Neots, Cambridgeshire 1950s
Dorothy E. Wrycroft (1899–1956)
Oil on hardboard
H 38 x W 51 cm
St Neots Museum

© the artist's estate. Image credit: St Neots Museum
Portrait 1938
Vera Morosoff (1899–1991)
Oil on canvas
H 72 x W 59 cm
Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum

© Nicholas Morosoff Institute. Image credit: Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
Profile
Phyllis Dodd (1899–1995)
Oil on canvas
H 60 x W 49.2 cm
Newport Museum and Art Gallery

© P. and R. Bliss. Image credit: Newport Museum and Art Gallery
Eileen Agar 1927
Eileen Agar (1899–1991)
Oil on canvas
H 76.5 x W 64.1 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London

© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London
Jane Maria Grant (1840–1928), Lady Strachey, Writer 1920
Dora Carrington (1893–1932)
Oil on canvas
H 76.2 x W 61 cm
National Galleries of Scotland

Image credit: National Galleries of Scotland