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5 Fast Facts: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam
Posted: January 8, 2026
Category: Women Artists From Antwerp To Amsterdam
Impress your friends with facts about five artists whose work is included in Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750, on view through January 11, 2026.
A detailed oil painting of a lush forest-floor still life featuring an asymmetrical arrangement of various flowers, including tall irises and morning glories, bell-shaped foxgloves, a central bright orange lily-like bloom, and clusters of white and pink blossoms. This is set against a dark, muted background.

Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam: Networks
Posted: December 30, 2025
Category: Women Artists From Antwerp To Amsterdam
Women were crucial to the artistic economy of the Low Countries, and female labor was a significant factor in the unprecedented expansion of trade and the thriving market for art...
Still life painting features a reddish ceramic colander with several types of fish. In the foreground, a cat stands alert next to shrimp and oyster shells on a gleaming pewter dish.

Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam: Choices
Posted: December 19, 2025
Category: Women Artists From Antwerp To Amsterdam
The options available to women artists in this period, whether to marry, pursue specialized training, and much more, depended largely on their social class and family connections.
A woman wearing a black veil and white religious habit stands indoors, holding a book. The background shows stone columns and an arched window revealing a cloudy sky and distant landscape.

Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam: Presence
Posted: December 11, 2025
Category: Women Artists From Antwerp To Amsterdam
Portraits of women artists, their signatures, and existing works in a wide range of mediums and genres attest to their presence during the 17th and early 18th centuries.
A woman in 17th-century attire sits at an easel, holding brushes and a palette, painting a man playing the violin. She wears a lace ruff and looks toward the viewer with a slight smile.

Now Open: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750
Posted: September 26, 2025
Category: Women Artists From Antwerp To Amsterdam
NMWA's newest exhibition celebrates women artists from the 17th-century Low Countries, challenging their historical obscurity and showcasing their diverse contributions to art.
An elaborate floral arrangement painted with precise detail appears dramatically spot lit against a dark background. Large red and pink blooms dominate, interspersed with small yellow, white, and blue blossoms and varied foliage. Moths and other insects a