Tag: International Women’s Day

Artists of Northern Europe, Conferences and Symposia, Flemish primitives, Great Mistresses, Illuminated manuscripts, Illumination of legal documents, portrait miniature, Portraiture, Royal Portraits, Simon Bening, Tudor portraiture

Levina Teerlinc (?) Henry VIII’s court artist from 1546 – 1576

Melanie V Taylor

The author recounts their discovery of Levina Teerlinc, a significant 16th-century woman artist, while researching for their MA. They analyze a portrait by Nicholas Hilliard, suggesting it depicts Teerlinc as the Unknown Lady. Teerlinc's status as Elizabeth I's official painter raises her profile in the male-dominated art world of the period.

Portraiture

A Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the NPG, London.

Melanie V Taylor

On International Women's Day I am asking you to consider the life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), wife of the British Ambassador to Turkey 1716-18, medical pioneer, adventurer and prolific letter writer. After their time in Constantinople the Wortley Montagu's returned to England, but left England again in 1739, not returning until the 1760s.… Continue reading A Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the NPG, London.