While families often commissioned portraits of their daughters as they entered convents, this painting more closely follows ... as a Bride of Christ), and the fan of fashionable women. While being ...

whose family owned Priston Manor in Somerset A "rare" 18th Century painting has been acquired by the National Museum Wales. Portrait of a Lady (Miss Mary Jenkins?) was painted by Richard Wilson in ...

Angelika Kauffmann was an Austrian painter best known for her Neoclassical portraits of 18th-century British high society and historical paintings. Born on October 30, 1741 in Graubünden, Switzerland, ...

A self portrait of Giulia Lama, thought to date from the early 18th Century Who decides which ... With only a small fraction of the art in museums by women, efforts are being made, at the Venice ...