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Marie-Denise Villers

French portrait painter Marie-Denise Villers’s most famous painting, Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes/Young Woman Drawing (1801) was attributed to Jacques-Louis David, under whom she studied.

Louise Campbell

English princess, sculptor, personal secretary to Queen Victoria, viceregal consort, and painter

Joan Lindsay

Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist best known for her book Picnic at Hanging Rock

Clarice Beckett

Australian painter regarded as one of the country’s most loved artists.

Caroline Louisa Daly

For years, Canadian painter Caroline Louisa Daly’s works were misattributed to not one but two men.

1960s It Girl Edie Sedgewick was famous as Andy Warhol’s muse and actress in his films. Her untimely death at age twenty-eight of a drug overdose cut short any promise she may have shown as an artist herself, and her paintings, drawings, and sculptures as an artist in her own right weren’t made public until they went up for auction in 2022.

Jo Nivison Hopper

Jo Nivison Hopper was a talented artist whose support of her husband Edward was vital to his success.

Marie Krøyer

Danish painter Marie Krøyer’s first marriage was to one of the most famous painters in Danish history. It was not until after her daughter’s death in 1986 that Marie’s own art gained recognition, as her paintings were among the estate and were eventually collected by the Skagens Museum in Skagen, Denmark.

Valeria Gibson Ladd

Valeria Gibson Ladd (1892-1984) was a painter and dancer with the Noyes School of Rhythm during the 1930s

Pat Larter

Pioneering ‘femail’ artist who gave men the Playboy treatment