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

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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