Mirror Mirror: Self-portraits By Women Artists & On The Nature of Women: Tudor and Jacobean Portraits of Women
England's National Portrait Gallery created Mirror Mirror as an exhibition in 2002 and another, On The Nature of Women: Tudor and Jacobean Portraits of Women 1535 - 1620, that closed in November of 2009:
"This exhibition brings together all of the self-portraits by women artists from the Gallery's collection alongside loans and new works acquired or commissioned by the Gallery for this exhibition."
"Spanning four centuries, the exhibition includes work by 40 artists, from the mid 17th century to the present day. It features works in all media, including oil painting, photography, prints drawings and sculpture."
Virtual tour of the exhibition
(best seen with set screen resolution to 1024 x 768)
- Eileen Agar
- Mary Beale: "In this painting she affirms her position as an artist by showing us a palette hanging on the wall behind her, and her status as a portrait painter and mother — her right hand rests on a canvas portraying her sons. Her husband — who might perhaps be called a 'new man' before his time - was her assistant, mixing paint and keeping the 'notebooks' containing details of her accounts and sittings. His notebook of 1677 (in the Bodleian Library) details a busy year: eighty-three commissions yielding earnings of £429."
- Helen Chadwick
- Lallie Charles (née Charlotte Elizabeth Martin)
- Susan Vera ('Susie') Cooper: "Ceramic designer; in 1929 set up her own company, whose motto, ‘elegance combined with utility’, was the basis of long-lasting commercial success. Known popularly for her ‘art deco’ designs, in the industry she was acknowledged for generally improving standards of lithographic transfer decoration. In 1940 she became only the second woman to be created a Royal Designer for Industry."
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