by artherstory | Dec 22, 2025 | News/Blog
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....
by Erika Gaffney | Jan 30, 2025 | News/Blog
Art Herstory is excited to announce four new note card designs! Two artists—Anne Vallayer-Coster and Giovanna Garzoni—make a repeat appearance in our stationery line. And with this new batch of note cards, we introduce a “new” early modern woman...
by artherstory | Jun 18, 2024 | News/Blog
Guest post by Ellice Wu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Angelica Kauffman, Self-Portrait, c. 1770–75. Oil on canvas, 74 x 61 cm. Ramsbury Manor Foundation. 2024 is shaping up to be a great year for exhibitions on women artists—and certainly no less...
by artherstory | May 14, 2024 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder There is exciting news from Montreal—the city’s Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is shining a spotlight on early modern European women artists in its collection! Spotlight: Women Artists in the Early Modern European Art...
by wpengine | Jul 5, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Paris Spies-Gans, Harvard Society of Fellows Although rarely acknowledged or discussed in these terms, the period from 1760 to 1830 was a watershed moment for women artists in Britain and France. In fact, it was in both nations in these exact...
