by wpengine | Mar 26, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Helen Draper, independent scholar and author Mary Beale, Self-portrait with husband Charles & son Bartholomew, c.1659–60, oil on canvas, Geffrye Museum. Detail, head of the artist. This week, in March 1633, clergyman John Cradock DD...
by Erika Gaffney | Mar 8, 2020 | News/Blog
The initial sub-series profiles female artists of the Renaissance and Baroque Allegory of Fame, c. 1630–35, by Artemisia Gentileschi. The Bennett Collection. Illuminating Women Artists, published by London-based publisher Lund Humphries, launches at a critical moment...
by wpengine | Jun 30, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Laura Gowing, Professor of Early Modern History, King’s College London The exhibition Bright Souls: The Forgotten Story of Britain’s First Female Artists, just opened in London’s Connaught Street. The show puts together for the first time...
by Erika Gaffney | May 13, 2019 | News/Blog
As promised in a previous blog post (Michelangelo’s Sisters: (Re)Introducing Female Old Masters) here is a post that highlights the names and works of twelve female Old Masters. These dozen names represent only a small percentage of the women who were not only...
