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Erika Gaffney
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Comm Editor, Art History, Lund Humphries. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
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Artemisia Gentileschi Self-Portrait Sells for Record $5.7 Million at Christie’s
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., also just acquired a major work by the artist.
by Eileen Kinsella for @artnet.bsky.social
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Artemisia Gentileschi Self-Portrait Sells for Record $5.7 Million at Christie's | Artnet News
Christie's set a new auction record for Artemisia Gentileschi, and the National Gallery of Art acquired a major work by the artist.
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February 5, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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Big news - the National Gallery of Art today announced the acquisition of "Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy," a c. 1625 painting by Artemisia Gentileschi! The work will be on view beginning late February in Gallery 29 on the main floor of the West Building.

Read the full press release - lnkd.in/gZXtwMdr
A painting of a long-haired white woman, seated (depicted from the side) with her head tilted back, eyes closed, and hands clasped over her knee. Her white blouse falls off her right shoulder and her long curly brown hair flows behind her.
February 4, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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The book by Katlijne Van der Stighelen will be available at the exhibition at the RA in London in March, or you can pre-order your copy direct from www.lundhumphries.com now!
February 4, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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Peale is the subject of a new book for young readers: Absolutely Amazing American Artists: Sarah Miriam Peale, by Maria Ausherman, illustrated by Jeanne Conway, shoptbmbooks.com/Absolutely_A...
A book cover, the feature image of which is a drawing of a white woman with brown hair in a C19th long pink gown standing before an easel, on which sits a portrait of a woman. On the wall behind the easel are more portraits, in frames.
February 4, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Still Life with Watermelon, 1822, by #SarahMiriamPeale (American, 1800-85), who died #otd, Feb 4. Held by the Fogg Museum, Harvard, harvardartmuseums.org/collections/... #artherstory #womenartists
A still life painting of fruit on a wooden ledge - including one half of a honeydew melon, cut side up; a couple of bunches of black grapes with vine and leaves; a chunk of cut watermelon; a bunch of green grapes with a leaf; and behind that leaf, two peaches. Sitting on the ledge in front of the watermelon is a little piece of the fruit's flesh, with seeds.
February 4, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Rare self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi as ‘one of history’s most courageous women’ up for auction
Gentileschi’s work and life have become a greater source of fascination in recent years
by Roisin O'Connor for @the-independent.com

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Rare self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi up for auction
Gentileschi’s work and life have become a greater source of fascination in recent years
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February 4, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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#ArtHerstory's Basket of Plums Note Card
Artist: Anne Vallayer-Coster
Artwork held at: The Cleveland Museum of Art

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A note card opened facedown to show front and back covers. The front features at right a brown woven wicker basket, which sits on a stone ledge, heaped high with purple plums (at least a dozen are visible). At the left sits a clear glass tumbler filled with water, and two cakes in white molded paper: the first sits flat on the ledge, the second sits slantwise, partially on top of the first, tilting down so that one end rests on the ledge. The background is dark. On the back of the card is a thumbnail of the image surrounded by text with information about the painting. Text at the right presents branding information, with social media icons.
February 4, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Working on my next print for #PrinterSolstice2526 - another scientist portrait for the prompt division. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🎢 #histsci I decided to interpret it like the ‘dividing line’ or interface and highlight the life and work of autodidact Agnes Pockels (1862-1935). Not allowed to attend university as a woman 🧵
My carved green vinyl Lino block portrait of Agnes Pockels holding her pen and notebook by her trough (which was 70 cm by 5 cm and 2 cm deep, with a ruler along its length and a sliding divider). There is a button attached to an apothecary scale in the through so she can measure surface tension. She has her hair up and wears a dress and a cross on a necklace. She is surrounded by soap bubbles and you can see text in reverse for the Pockels point, 20 angstroms.
February 4, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️

Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
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Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (111286-0126) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (111286-0126). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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February 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Fowl in a landscape, with a garden vase and a statue of a lady beyond, 1685/90, by #CorneliaDeRijk (or #CorneliaDeRijck; Dutch, 1653-1726), who married for the 2nd time #otd, Feb 3.
#artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory
A painting of at least 7 birds - including chickens and ducks - in a landscape, with a garden vase and a statue of a lady beyond
February 3, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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Portrait of a Lady possibly of the Buccleuch Family, n.d., by #KatherineRead (or #CatherineRead; Scottish, 1723-1778), who was born #otd, Feb 3. Held by The Rhodes Trust, Oxford; source, "Finding Catherine Read," by Adam Busiakiewicz, artherstory.net/finding-cath... #artherstory #womenartists
An 18th-century portrait of a white woman, facing the right edge of the painting. Much of her brown hair is visible under a white cap draped with pearls. She wears a scoop-necked white dress under a light blue drape, fastened at the right shoulder with a metallic clasp decorated with a pearl that matches a similar embellishment at the center front of the white dress.
February 3, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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Portrait of a young gentleman holding gloves and leaning on a table, 1639, by #MaddalenaCorvina (Italian, 1607-1664), who died #otd, Feb 3. Private collection? Source, www.iodonna.it/attualita/st... #womenartists #artherstory
A bodycolor on vellum drawing of a young white man with long curly dark hair, standing with one hand on his left hip. His right arm is stretched out over a red-draped surface, maybe a small table; in his right hand he clutches two white gloves. His attire is black and white, with loops of blue ribbon at the top center of his trousers. He wears a lacy white lobed garment across his shoulders that fastens at the front, under his chin.
February 3, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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The Cheerful Abstractions of Alma Thomas
by Alexandra Kiely for the #ArtHerstory blog
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The Cheerful Abstractions of Alma Thomas
Alexandra Kiely here provides background about the life and art of American abstract painter Alma Woodsey Thomas.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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📢 New Blog Post 📢 over at @materialwills.bsky.social 📜

@lsangha.bsky.social writes about Creative Fellow Chris Hoban's recent performance of music inspired by our research into early modern wills, and his plans for future musical outputs! 🎹🎵🎤

#skystorians #history #earlymodern
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📢NEW POST: a report on Chris Hoban's recent performance of music inspired by our wills at a sold gig for Topsham Folk Club 📢

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lsangha.bsky.social Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1d
'What a brilliant night! Wills: dry, formal, boring? This was story telling at its best: intriguing, engaging, human!’

In this new blog post, find out what happened when Chris Hoban and his band, The Executors, played to a packed house in Topsham

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February 3, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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5 new art books to look out for this spring, including key artist biographies & the tale of an artistic rivalry
by @jacriding.bsky.social for @theartnewspaper.bsky.social
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3 of the 5 focus on #womenartists: Michaelina Wautier, Louise Bourgeois & Frida Kahlo!
Five new art books to look out for this spring, including key artist biographies and the tale of an artistic rivalry
Our books editor picks out some of the highlights of the months ahead
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February 2, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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The Holy Family with an angel and the prophetess Anna, 1795, by #CatharinaTreu (German, 1743-1811). Held by Historical Museum Bamberg, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:17... #artherstory #nuntastic #CandlemasDay #womenartists #FeastofCandlemas #nuntastic #Candlemas #FeastofthePresentationoftheLord
A painting of the Holy Family with the seer Anna, at the temple on the day of Jesus' presentation. In the foreground are a frontlit Mary and Jesus, with the child standing on a white cloth on a surface on whcih also sits a sprig of a plant with red flowers or buds. He looks at the seer Anna, who stands facing sideways, holding out her arms up in front of her, with something (fruit? an apple?) in her left hand. In the background are Joseph and another person in red, holding up a bunch of green grapes over the mother and child.
February 2, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Early Modern Women Artists at Auction in 2025
The post revisits sales at auction in 2025 of works by European women artists of the 17th and 18th centuries.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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@rsaorg.bsky.social's inaugural Eloise Quiñones Keber Fellowship "supports research travel for a scholar working in any area of pre-Columbian, early modern, or colonial Latin American art history for the period 1300–1700."

Apply by March 1. 🗃
#arthistory #LatinAmerica
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December 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Lady while you are young, and beautiful…, c. 1836–37, by #SarahMappsDouglass (American, 1806-82). From the Elizabeth Smith Friendship Album, held at Moorland Spingarn Research Center at Howard Univ; source, artherstory.net/visual-feast... #artherstory #womenartists #BlackHistoryMonth
A drawing on paper, contained in an album, of a rose, a rosebud, two violas, and a sprig of a plant with small blue flowers. At the bottom of the page are three lines of text in cursive, and the writer's initials.
February 1, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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To kick off #BlackHistoryMonth, here is a self-portrait of Lois Mailou Jones, a #HarlemRenaissance artist who incorporated African, Haitian, and African-American themes into her paintings.
February 1, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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Coming up online Feb 27 -

The Life & Work of May Morris: “A Remarkable Woman”
Speaker: Fiona Rose
Host: Gordon Russell Design Museum
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Talk Schedule: 27th February 2026, 6pm The Life & Work of May Morris: “A Remarkable Woman” Towards the end of her life May Morris (1862-1938) - designer, craftsperson, and younger daughter of Will...
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February 1, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Self-portrait of Camilla Guerrieri painting Vittoria della Rovere, c. 1640, by #CamillaGuerrieriNati (#CamillaGuerrieriNati; Italian, 1628–after 1693). Held by Uffizi Galleries; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca... #womenartists #artherstory
A painting in an elaborate carved gold-colored frame, of a woman holding a palette, brush uplifted in her right hand. In front of her is an easel on which is a portrait she's painting; between the easel and the artist the sitter is visible, under a red drape. The artist turns her head over her left shoulder to look directly - and unsmilingly - at the viewer.
February 1, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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Medievalists.net - Where the Middle Ages Begins
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February 1, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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Sheila Barker speaks at the St. Louis Art Museum on "Reframing Artemisia Gentileschi’s Success: The Market Appeal of Feminist Art in the 17th Century," Saturday, March 21, 2026
Reframing Artemisia Gentileschi's Success: The Market Appeal of Feminist Art in the 17th Century
The annual Mary Strauss Women in the Arts lecture will be given by Sheila Barker, director of the Center for Women in Renaissance Archives, The Medici Archive Project.
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January 31, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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The Pasold Research Fund is accepting publication grant applications - deadline, Feb 15.

The aim is to subsidize the publication of essential illustrative material in high quality research, particularly in research monographs.

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Pasold Research Fund - Publication Grants
Pasold Research Fund A grant to subsidise the publication of illustrative material in research monographs.
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January 31, 2026 at 8:31 PM