In this 18th century portrait, the sitter is wearing ... Judging from one of his female portraits (Anne Catherine Hoof Green), which he executed in 1769, I noticed certain similarities to my ...

Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics for decades Manuela Callari This portrait of Cristina Roccati (left ...

Quinn, whose book "She Votes" documented women's suffrage United States, is in her element again with "Portrait of a Woman ... say obsession--with obscure 18th century French artist Adelaïde ...

In a bid to expand its holding of historical art by women, Luxembourg’s National Museum of History and Art has acquired three works by the 18th century French portrait painter Monique Daniche.

A major oil painting of an 18th Century female scholar has been rediscovered by London's National Portrait Gallery. The portrait of Elizabeth Carter, painted between 1735 and 1741 by John Fayram, was ...

The image is based on “Portrait of an African Man ... for her show at Gagosian Beverly Hills, she copied 18th-century likenesses of notable women, down to the pearl. Except she obscured ...

As a rare professional female artist in the late 18th century, she achieved great success ... especially when—like the MFA’s portrait—they are unsigned. Now that we know this is a work ...

In her home proudly hung a mezzotint of Reynolds’ portrait. Plum often pointed to it ... Together, we uncovered a direct line from Joanna’s family in the late-18th century to our 21st-century one. The ...

A portrait by one of the 18th century's best artists is expected to fetch up to £25,000 at auction. The artwork was created in 1766 by Sir Joshua Reynolds and is of a woman called Letitia Sparrow.

Following diligently the track laid down by previous scholars writing about such 18th century female authors, Chatterjee finds "ambiguity" and "ambivalence" revealed in their narratives.

“That is how I first discovered the early women of science in the Italian peninsula.” As Findlen eagerly flicked the pages, she stumbled upon Cristina Roccati, an 18th-century trailblazer from ...