Lavinia Fontana, Portrait of a noblewoman (ca ... She also painted mythological scenes and self-portraits, and is the first-known woman painter to depict female nudes. With her husband, who ...

The Fontana miniature is shown in the bottom right Courtesy of Strawberry Hill House & Garden Identifying the true sitter of a portrait of this kind is “exceedingly difficult”, Brady says.

Despite the overwhelming evidence that line drawing of portraiture and self-portraits were first practised ... such as Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Michaelina Wautier, Artemisia ...

One of Europe’s first professional women artists, the Bolognese painter Lavinia Fontana was known for her empathetic portraits of women and children. She sensitively depicted Antonietta Gonzales ...