List of 17th-century women artists

17th-century women artists – female painters, miniaturists, calligraphers, engravers and sculptors who were active in 17th century (born between 1580 and 1700).

Asia

China

  • Ma Shouzhen (c. 1548–1604) – Gējì and artist, painter, poet, and composer.
  • Fang Weiyi (1585-1668) – aristocratic poet, calligrapher, painter and literature historian.
  • Lin Xue (d. after 1642) – Gējì, poet, painter, and calligrapher
  • Xue Susu (c.1564–1650?) – Gējì, poet, painter, archer.
  • Cai Han (1647–1686) – the concubine of the painter Mao Xiang. His other painter concubine was Jin Yue.
  • Lin Yining (1655 – c. 1730) – poet and painter
  • Chai Jingyi (d. 1680) – aristocratic poet and painter.
  • Chen Shu (1660–1735) – first female painter of Qing dynasty, painter's daughter.

Japan

Americas

Europe

British Isles: England & Scotland

France

Source:[1]

Germany

Italy

Born in 16th-century:

Born in 17th century:

Malta

Spanish Netherlands / Dutch Republic

Born in 16th-century:

Born in 17th century:

Spain & Portugal

  • Josefa de Óbidos (Josefa de Ayala) (c. 1630 – 1684) - Spanish-born Portuguese painter, daughter of painter Baltazar Gomes Figueira.
  • Maria de Abarca (active between 1630 and 1656)
  • Luisa Roldán (1652–1706) - the earliest woman sculptor documented in Spain, daughter of sculptor Pedro Roldán, "Sculptor of the Chamber" to Carlos II.
  • Teresa Agüesca (1654-?) - engraver, daughter of engraver Juan Jerónimo Agüesca.
  • Luisa de Morales (1654 – after 1685) - daughter and disciple of Juan de Valdés Leal.
  • María de la Concepción de Morales - daughter and disciple of Juan de Valdés Leal, nun[8]
  • Andrea de Mena (1654-1734) - sculptor, daughter of sculptor Pedro de Mena.
  • Claudia de Mena (1655-?) - sculptor, daughter of sculptor Pedro de Mena
  • Francisca Palomino y Velasco (1655-1726)

Sweden & Finland

Switzerland

    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. ISBN 0-7892-0345-6
    • 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. 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.

    References

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    3. ^ "Catherine Duchemin et les sœurs Boulogne : être ou ne pas être artiste ? | Le blog de Gallica". gallica.bnf.fr. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
    4. ^ Fidière, Octave (1855-1904) Auteur du texte (1885). Les femmes artistes à l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture / par Octave Fidière.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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    6. ^ https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/BoecopCornelia
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    8. ^ Sanz, Alba Gómez de Zamora (2020-04-21). "Luisa de Morales y María de la Concepción, discípulas de Juan de Valdés Leal". Investigart (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-03-10.
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