Helena Sofia (Helene) Schjerfbeck was a Finnish painter. A modernist painter, she is known for her realist works and self-portraits, and also for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, her work changed dramatically beginning with French-influenced realism and plein air painting. It gradually evolved towards portraits and still life paintings. At the beginning of her career she often produced historical paintings, such as the Wounded Warrior in the Snow (1880), At the Door of Linköping Jail in 1600 (1882) and The Death of Wilhelm von Schwerin (1886). Historical paintings were usually the realm of male painters, as was the experimentation with modern influences and French radical naturalism. As a result, her works produced mostly in the 1880s did not receive a favourable reception until later in her life.
Her work starts with a dazzlingly skilled, somewhat melancholic version of late-19th-century academic realism…it ends with distilled, nearly abstract images in which pure paint and cryptic description are held in perfect balance.
Although women artists have been involved in the making of art throughout history, their work, when compared to that of their male counterparts, has been often obfuscated, overlooked and undervalued. The Western canon has historically valued men's work over women's. Many of women's works have also been wrongly attributed to men artists. The widespread recognition of the work of the female artists has accelerated as they continue to produce works that complicate and challenge ones' understandings. Prevailing stereotypes about the sexes have caused certain media, such as textile or fiber arts, to be primarily associated with women, despite having once been categories, such as ceramic art, in which both men and women participated. Additionally, art forms that have gained this distinction are, as in the case of both textile and fabric arts, demoted to categories like "arts and crafts", rather than fine art.
Maria Felice Tibaldi (1707–1770) was an Italian painter. She was born in Rome.
Rebecca Solomon was a 19th-century English Pre-Raphaelite draftsman, illustrator, engraver, and painter of social injustices. She is the second of three children who all became artists, in a prominent Jewish family.
Helen Cordelia Angell, née Coleman was an English watercolour painter.
Love Locked Out is an oil painting by Anna Lea Merritt first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1890 and which became the first painting by a woman artist acquired for the British national collection through the Chantrey Bequest.
Francisca María Brockmann y Llanos (1867–1946) was a Spanish historical painter.
Maria Catharina Wiik was a Finnish painter. She worked principally with still life, genre images, landscape paintings and portraits.
Agnese Dolci was an Italian painter and the daughter of Carlo Dolci.
Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, assembled and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of publication.
Georges Achille-Fould or George-Achille Fould-Stirbey was a French painter.
Maria Katharina Prestel née Maria Katharina Höll, was an engraver and painter from Nuremberg, and active in London.
Flora Macdonald Reid or Flora M. Reid was a British, Scottish painter and the sister of the artists John Robertson Reid and Elizabeth Reid.
Amelia Hotham was a British watercolour painter.
Annie Mary Youngman was a British painter.
Jessie Macgregor (1847–1919) was a British painter.
Julia Bracewell Folkard (1849–1933) was a British painter.
Hilda Flodin was a Finnish artist. She worked in a variety of media, but in the first part of her career primarily sculpture and etchings, later primarily painting, especially portraits.
Ada Maria Thilen was a Finnish painter known for her landscapes.
Two Women on the Hillside is an oil on canvas painting by German painter Franz Marc. It is part of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen and is on a permanent loan at the Franz Marc Museum in Kochel am See.
