Dreweatts Auction House in London will offer a work by Joan Carlile, widely believed to be the first female portrait painter active in Britain during the 17th century, at its Old Master, British, and ...

The first-ever exhibition on Europe’s most important early female painter, Catharina van Hemessen, will open later this year in Antwerp and come to London in 2027. It starts at the Snijders&Rockox ...

This month, the focus is on women as this Saturday marks International Women’s Day. Acclaimed visual artist Giorgos Gerontidis contributes to the occasion in his own way by holding a new painting ...

Figurative artist Claire Connolly is embarking upon a two-prong artistic journey that begins with a series of seven oil portraits depicting childbearing women of color – each imbued with personal ...

The portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was briefly the most expensive painting in the world and the mcguffin for the Helen Mirren movie "Woman in Gold" about the picture's return to the descendants of the ...