Baroque Europe

Women artists, patrons, and collectors in 17th-century Europe.


Marie de’ Medici

Queen of France

Italian patron | 1575—1642

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Fede Galizia

Italian painter | 1578—1630

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Chiara Varotari

Italian painter | 1584—after 1663

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Lucrina Fetti

Italian painter | c.1590—after 1636

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Artemisia Gentileschi

Italian painter | 1593—1652

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Clara Peeters

Flemish painter | 1594—after 1657

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Orsola Maddalena Caccia

Italian painter | 1596—1676

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Arcangela Paladini

Italian painter | 1599—1622

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Magdalena van de Passe

Dutch Engraver | 1600—1638

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Giovanna Garzoni

Italian painter | 1600—1670

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Virginia Vezzi

Italian painter | 1600—1638

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Suzanne de Court

French enameller | active c. 1600

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Margaretha de Heer

Dutch painter | 1600/03—1658/65

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Susanna van Steenwijk-Gaspoel

Dutch painter | after 1601—1664

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Maria de Grebber

Dutch painter | 1602—1680

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Gertruida van Veen

Flemish painter | 1602—1643

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Anna Francisca de Bruyns

Flemish painter | 1604/5—1656

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Anna Maria van Schurman

Dutch engraver, painter, poet and scholar | 1607—1678

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Maddalena Corvina

Italian painter and engraver | 1607—1664

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Tōfukumon’in

Empress of Japan

Japanese artist and patron | 1607—1678

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Judith Leyster

Dutch painter | 1609—1660

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Louise Moillon

French painter | 1610—1696

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Michaelina Wautier

Flemish painter | 1614—1689

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Plautilla Bricci

Italian painter and architect | 1616—after 1690

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Ginevra Cantofoli

Italian painter | 1618—1672

Catharina or Katharina Pepijn

Flemish painter | 1619—1688

Geertruydt Roghman

Dutch Engraver | c. 1625—1657?

Josefa de Ayala D’Óbidos

Spanish-born Portuguese painter | 1630—1684

Maria van Oosterwyck

Dutch painter | 1630—1693

Mary Beale

English painter | 1632—1697

Gesina ter Borch

Dutch watercolorist | 1633—1690

Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp

Queen of Sweden

Swedish patron | 1636—1715

Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella

French engraver | 1636—1697

Elisabetta Sirani

Italian painter and engraver | 1638—1665

Antonia Bertucci-Pinelli

Italian painter | died c. 1640

Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella

French engraver | c. 1641—1676

Maria Sibylla Merian

German-born Naturalist, Entomologist and botanical illustrator | 1647—1717

Élisabeth Sophie Chéron

French painter, musician, poet, and translator | 1648—1711

Aleijda Wolfsen 

Dutch painter | 1648—1692

Teresa del Pò

Italian painter and engraver | 1649—1716

Margherita Caffi

Italian painter | 1650—1710

Susan-Penelope Rosse

British miniaturist | c. 1652—1700

Luisa Ignacia Roldán

Spanish sculptor | 1656—1704

Anne Killigrew

English painter and poet | 1660—1685

Amalia von Königsmarck

Swedish painter | 1663—1740

Rachel Ruysch

Dutch painter | 1664—1750

Anna Ruysch

Dutch painter | 1666—1754

Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl Wattrang

Swedish painter | 1666—1729

Lucia Casalini Torelli

Italian painter | 1677—1762

Anna Waser

Swiss painter and etcher | 1678—1714