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."
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Culture and Arts, Art and Museums, Women of Note, Senior Women Web, Julia Sneden