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
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• 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."
• Maggi Hambling: '' 'She works all the hours she can, waiting, working, until the muse arrives, as she puts it. If the muse doesn't show up, Hambling destroys the canvas she's working on' ".
• Dame Barbara Hepworth:  "Her work paralleled that of Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson, her second husband, in achieving an international status for British art. She was made a Dame in 1965. Her studio in St Ives, Cornwall is now a museum."
• Gwendolen Mary ('Gwen') John
• Dame Laura Knight:  "Her retrospective at the RA in 1965 was the first accorded to a woman. As an Official War Artist in the Second World War, Knight recorded the Nuremburg Trials."
• Lee Miller
• Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (Mrs Heseltine)
• Doris Clare Zinkeisen:  "Painter and stage designer; with her sister Anna, Doris Zinkeisen was a familiar figure on the artistic scene from the 1920s. Best known for society portraits, horse paintings and murals of regency scenes, she was also an official war artist for the St John Ambulance Brigade and her drawings of Belsen are held in the Imperial War Museum."

The Beyond the Gallery archive includes a partnership exhibit at Montracute House that closed in November 2009. On The Nature of Women: Tudor and Jacobean Portraits of Women 1535 - 1620:

"This special display explores the representation and role of noble women in Tudor and Jacobean England. During the period there was much debate about female nature with male writers characterising women as either shrewish and prone to vice or faithful and prudent. The women featured in the display range from dutiful wives and mothers to those tainted by scandal and intrigue. The display explores how character and virtues were represented through portraiture and sheds new light on the role of women during the period including their involvement in momentous political events and life at the royal court."