Concept/Performance: Sonia Roshal

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In a collection of over 2,300 paintings spanning the 13th to early 20th century, there are  21 paintings by women at the National Gallery. I've performed the only 3 paintings by 3 female artists that were on display that day.

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Rachel Ruysch

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"Hugely successful, Rachel Ruysch’s paintings often sold for more in her lifetime than Rembrandt’s did in his"

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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

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"At 15 she was painting the aristocracy, in her 20s she was the favoured painter of Marie-Antoinette, and by her 30s she was fleeing the French Revolution."

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Catharina van Hemessen

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"Was a Flemish Renaissance painter. She is the earliest female Flemish painter for whom there is verifiable extant work. She is mainly known for a series of small scale female portraits completed between the late 1540s and early 1550s and a few religious compositions".

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