Elected to the board of the Essendon Football Club in 1993, she was the first woman to hold that position at an Australian Football League (AFL) club. Knight is also well know for the leading role she has taken in bringing the work of Aboriginal artists to public notice. She is a former president of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association and helped develop a code of conduct to protect Aboriginal artists from exploitative dealers.
Founder of the famous “Madame Tussaud’s Exhibition” of wax figures in London.
English artist and poetess
Influential mistress of King Louis XV
French sculptor, founder and president of the Society of Woman Painters and Sculptors, and for fifteen years was a member of the jury on sculpture in the Society of French Artists.
Italian miniature and portrait painter
Romanian author, translator feminist, painter, scholar and mountaineer
American sculptor and innovator
From both scientific and artistic points of view, Fanny Osborne’s paintings of the flowers of the indigenous trees, shrubs, vines and herbs of Great Barrier are exceptional and superbly crafted examples of botanical illustration. They
English naturalist and flower-painter