List of 16th-century women artists
Appearance
16th-century women artists – female painters, miniaturists, manuscript illuminators, calligraphers, engravers and sculptors born between 1500 and 1600.
Asia
[edit]China
[edit]- Ma Shouzhen (c. 1548–1604) – Gējì and artist, painter, poet, and composer.
- Xue Susu (c.1564–1650? C.E.) – Gējì, poet, painter, archer.
- Qiu Zhu (fl. 1565–1585) – painter, daughter of painter Qiu Ying.
Japan
[edit]- Ono Otsū (1559 or 1568–1631) – noblewoman, calligrapher, poet, painter and musician.
Europe
[edit]Italy
[edit]Netherlands
[edit]- Marguerite Scheppers (active from 1501 onward) – miniaturist.
- Cornelia van Wulfschkercke (d. 1540) – miniaturist, pupil of Marguerite Scheppers
- Susannah Hornebolt (1503–c. 1554) – daughter of painter Gerard Hornebolt, gentlewoman attendant to queen Jane Seymour. First known female artist in England.
- Levina Teerlinc (1510s – 23 June 1576) – miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court. Daughter of painter Simon Bening.
- Mayken Verhulst (1518–1596 or 1599) – painter, miniaturist. Wife of painter Pieter Coecke van Aelst, mother-in-law of Pieter Brueghel the Elder, the first teacher of her grandsons Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder.
- Mechtelt van Lichtenberg (ca. 1520–1598) painter, mother and teacher of Cornelia and Margaretha toe Boecop.
- Catharina van Hemessen (1527–1587) – daughter of painter Jan Sanders van Hemessen.
- Margaretha toe Boecop (before 1551 – after 1610) – daughter of female painter of Mechtelt van Lichtenberg
- Cornelia toe Boecop (1551 – after 1629) – daughter of female painter of Mechtelt van Lichtenberg[1]
- Anna van Cronenburg (1552 – after 1590)[2] – relative of painter Adriaan van Cronenburg.
- Colette van den Keere (1568–1629) – engraver, daughter of foundry artist Hendrik van den Keere
- Anna Roemersdr. Visscher (1584–1652) – artist, poet, translator, glass engraver.
- Clara Peeters (1589–1657?)
- Anna Tymansdr. Steyn (1589–1618) – calligrapher [3]
- Maria Tesselschade Visscher (1594–1649) – poet and glass engraver.
British Isles
[edit]- Jane Segar (?) – sister of William Segar, manuscript illuminator
- Elizabeth Lucar (1510–1537) – calligrapher
- Esther Inglis (1571–1624), worked in Scotland.
- Anne Gulliver, wife of court painter John Brown (d. 1532)[4]
- Alice Herne, wife of court painter William Herne (or Heron, d. 1580)[4]
Flemish females at Tudor court[5]:
- Susannah Hornebolt (1503–c. 1554) – daughter of painter Gerard Hornebolt, gentlewoman attendant to queen Jane Seymour. First known female artist in England.
- Levina Teerlinc (1510s – 23 June 1576) – miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court. Daughter of painter Simon Bening.
France
[edit]- Suzanne de Court (fl. 1600) – enamel painter in the Limoges workshops, possibly the daughter of Jean de Court
Sweden
[edit]- Anna Swenonis (d. 1527) – nun, manuscript illuminator
Switzerland
[edit]- Eva Abyberg (1588–1669)[6]
Books
[edit]- 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.
- “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
- 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. ISBN 0-7892-0345-6
- J. Dabbs (ed.), Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550–1800. An Anthology (Farnham 2009).
References
[edit]- ^ https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/BoecopCornelia
- ^ https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Cronenburg
- ^ https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/steyn
- ^ a b Tanja L. Jones (ed.). Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe. c. 1450–1700. P. 19
- ^ Tittler, Robert (2016). James, Susan E (ed.). "The 'Feminine Dynamic' in Tudor Art: A reassessment". The British Art Journal. 17 (1): 123–130. ISSN 1467-2006. JSTOR 24914097.
- ^ "Abyberg, Eva". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00000436. ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7. Retrieved 3 March 2024.