Early Modern Women Artists at Auction in 2025

by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder The year 2025 saw major new auction records set for art by women, both living and historic. Selling for US $13.6 million, Marlene Dumas’ Miss January became the most expensive artwork by a living female artist sold at...

A Home for Women Artists in Rome

The “Sala delle Pittrici” at Museo di Roma–Palazzo Braschi Guest post by Alessandra Masu, author, journalist and art historian As of December 5, 2025, the Museo di Roma–Palazzo Braschi presents the new Room “Roma Pittrice:...

Finding Catherine Read

The Rediscovery of Artworks by an Eighteenth-Century British Portrait Painter Guest post by Adam Busiakiewicz, art historian, lecturer and lutenist Catherine Read, Self Portrait, c. 1750. Oil on canvas, 63.5 x 48 cm. Private Collection. Author photo....