my-server
← Wiki

List of 18th-century women artists

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 – <abbr>c.</abbr> 1730) – poet and painter
  • Chen Shu (1660–1735) – first female painter of Qing dynasty, painter's daughter.
  • Ma Quan (18th C) - flower and bird painter
  • Yun Bing (18th C) - flower and bird painter
  • Fang Wanyi (1732-1779) - poet and painter
  • Yun Zhu (1771-1833) - poet, painter, anthologist

India

Japan

Americas

Europe

Austria

Belgium

Denmark

France

Source:

Born in 17th-century:

Born in 18th-century:

Germany

Born in 17th-century:

Born in 18th-century:

Italy

Born in 17th century:

Born in 18th century:

Netherlands

Born in 17th century:

Born in 18th century:

Russian Empire & Poland

  • Alexandra Rzevskaya (1740–1769) – Russian writer and amateur artist.
  • Marie-Anne Collot (1748-1821) - sculptor, daughter-in-law of Étienne Falconet. Member of Russian Academia
  • Anna Rajecka (c. 1762 – 1832) – Polish portrait painter and pastellist. First Polish female to have her work represented at the Salon.

Spain & Portugal

Sweden & Finland

Switzerland

  • Anna Waser (1675-1714) - Miniaturist
  • Angelica Kauffman (1751–1801) Member of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze (1762), one of only two female founding members of the British Royal Academy (1768). Daughter of painter Joseph Johann Kauffmann.

United Kingdom / British Isles

Born in 17th century:

Born in 18th century:

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.
  • Yuho, Tseng. “Women Painters of the Ming Dynasty.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 53, no. 1/2, 1993, pp.&nbsp;249–61.

References