Elizabeth Siddall

The model for some of the most famous Pre-Raphaelite paintings hanging in museums, as well as a poet and artist who produced more than 100 watercolours, sketches, and drawings

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Michaelina Wautier

For more than 300 years, Flemish painter Michaelina Wautier’s portraits were credited to male artists such as Jacob Van Oost or were simply forgotten in the storage rooms of museums.

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Helen Saunders

In the 1910s, painter Helen Saunders was one of only two women (the other being Jessica Dismorr) involved in the Vorticists, an artistic movement formed in 1914.

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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.

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