List of 16th-century women artists

16th-century women artists – female painters, miniaturists, manuscript illuminators, calligraphers, engravers and sculptors born between 1500 and 1600.

Portrait of Elizabeth I attributed to Levina Teerlinc, c. 1560–5. The Royal Collection.

Asia

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China

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Japan

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  • Ono Otsū (1559 or 1568–1631) – noblewoman, calligrapher, poet, painter and musician.

Europe

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Italy

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See: List of Italian Renaissance female artists

Netherlands

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British Isles

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  • 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]:

  • Levina Teerlinc (1510s – 23 June 1576) – miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court. Daughter of painter Simon Bening.

France

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Sweden

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Switzerland

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Books

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  • 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

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  1. ^ https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/BoecopCornelia
  2. ^ https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Cronenburg
  3. ^ https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/steyn
  4. ^ a b Tanja L. Jones (ed.). Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe. c. 1450–1700. P. 19
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Abyberg, Eva". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00000436. ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7. Retrieved 3 March 2024.