Women artists, patrons, and collectors from 1700-1800. [Illustrated timeline coming soon!]
Giovanna Fratellini
Italian painter | 1666—1731
Henrietta Johnston
American painter | c. 1674—1729
Rosalba Carriera
Italian painter | 1675—1757
Lucia Casalini Torelli
Italian painter | 1677—1762
Giulia Lama
Italian painter | 1681—1747
Jacoba Maria van Nickelen
Dutch painter | 1690 —1749
Elizabeth Blackwell
Scottish botanical illustrator, engraver, and author | c. 1700—1758
Marie-Jeanne Renard Dubos
French engraver | 1701—1750
Marianna Carlevarijs
Italian painter | 1703—1750
Teresa Berenice Vitelli
Suor Veronica
Italian miniaturist | Active 1706—1729
Cornelia van der Mijn
Dutch still-life painter, active in London | 1709—1782
Violante Beatrice Siriès Cerroti
Italian painter | 1709—1783
Marianne Loir
French painter | c. 1715—1769
Margareta Haverman
Dutch painter | Active 1715—1722 or later
Anna Rosina Lisiewska
German painter | 1716—1783
Maria Maddalena Baldacci
Italian painter | 1718—1782
Anna Bacherini Piattoli
Italian painter | 1720—1788
Violante Ferroni
Italian painter | Born 1720
Anna Dorothea Therbusch
German painter | 1721—1782
Katherine (or Catherine) Read
Scottish painter | 1723—1778
Maria Antonia, Electress of Saxony
German painter, poet, composer, and art patron | 1724—1780
Therese Concordia Maron (née Mengs)
German painter active in Rome | 1725—1806
Françoise Duparc
French painter | 1726—1778
Marie-Suzanne Giroust
French painter | 1734—1772
Ulrika Fredrica Pasch
Swedish painter | 1735—1796
Marie-Geneviève Navarre
French pastelist | 1737—1795
Angelica Kauffmann
Swiss painter | 1741—1807
Anne Vallayer-Coster
French painter | 1744—1818
Chiara Spinelli di Belmonte
Italian pastel artist | 1744—1823
Mary Moser
English painter | 1744—1819
Marie-Anne Fragonard (née Gérard)
French painter | 1745—1823
Anne Seymour Damer (née Conway)
English sculptor | 1748—1828
Marie-Anne Collot
French sculptor | 1748—1821
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
French painter | 1749—1803
Irene Parenti Duclos
Italian painter and poet | 1754—1795
Marie-Victoire Lemoine
French painter | 1754—1820
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
French painter | 1755—1842
Maria Cosway
English/Italian painter | 1760—1838
Marguerite Gérard
French painter | 1761—1837
Marie-Gabrielle Capet
French painter | 1761—1818
Mary Benwell
English miniaturist | Active 1761—1800
Rose Adéaïde Ducreux
French painter | 1761—1802
Marie-Geneviève Bouliar
French painter | 1763—1825
Constance Marie Charpentier
French painter | 1767—1849
Jeanne-Philiberte Ledoux
French painter | 1767—1840
Marie-Guillemine Benoist
French painter | 1768—1826
Adèle Romany
also Marie Jeanne Romanée
French painter | 1769—1846
Marie-Denise Villers (née Lemoine)
French painter | 1774—1821
Pauline Auzou
French painter | 1775—1835
Constance Mayer
French painter | 1775/78—1821