This is a partial list of 19th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth. These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and ceramics.
The list covers artists born before 1870. For later births see List of 20th-century women artists. For earlier births, see List of 18th-century women artists.
1770–1799 Cassandra Austen (1773–1845), English watercolourist Ernesta Legnani Bisi (1788–1859), Italian painter and engraver Antoinette Louise Demarcy (1788–1859), French miniaturist Rose Emma Drummond (1790–1840), English miniature portraitist Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux (1770–1826), French painter Elizabeth Liddell (1770–1831), British portraitist Amelia Long (1772–1837), British watercolourist Ema Saikō (1787–1861), Japanese painter and calligrapher Yun Zhu (1771–1833), Chinese painter
1800–1829 Sophie Anderson (1823–1903), painter Elisabetta Benato-Beltrami (1813–1888), Italian painter and sculptor Fulvia Bisi (1818–1911), Italian painter Margaret Rebecca Dickinson (1821–1918), British botanical artist Orsola Faccioli (1823–1906), Italian painter Emma Fürstenhoff (1802–1871), Swedish flower arranger Mina Karadžić (1828–1894), painter Katsushika Ōi (1800–1866), Japanese Ukiyo-e artist Louisa Keyser (Datsolalee) (c. 1829–1925), Washoe basket weaver Fredrika Ramstedt (1829–1914), Swedish flower arranger Eloise Harriet Stannard (1829–1915), painter Emily Coppin Stannard (1803–1885), painter Theresa Walker (1807–1876), Australian sculptor Candace Wheeler (1827–1923), interior and textile designer
1830–1839 Susie M. Barstow (1836–1923), painter Jane E. Bartlett (1839–1923), painter and portraitist Julie Hart Beers (1835–1913), painter Fidelia Bridges (1834–1923), watercolorist Giulia Centurelli (1832–1872), Italian painter Frances C. Fairman (1839–1923), animal painter, illustrator Maria Magdalena Łubieńska (1833–1920), Polish painter and founder of an arts school. Jane Morgan (1832–1899), Irish painter and sculptor
1840–1849
Quirina Alippi-Fabretti (1849–1919), Italian painter Helen Allingham (1848–1926), painter, illustrator Marie-Elmina Anger (1844–1901), nun and painter Anna Boch (1848–1936), painter Clelia Bompiani (1848–1927), Italian painter Marie Bracquemond (1841–1916), painter Caroline Shawk Brooks (1840–1913), American sculptor Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), painter, printmaker Helene Cramer (1844–1916), painter Eva Scott Fényes (1849–1930), painter Olga Fialka (1848–1930), painter, illustrator Jane Hawkins (1841–1904), portrait artist Kitty Lange Kielland (1843–1914), painter Clara Chipman Newton (1848–1936), china painter Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933), painter Vinnie Ream (1847–1914), sculptor Annie Swynnerton (1844–1933), painter Emma Beach Thayer (1849–1924), painter Margaret Thomas (1842–1929), Australian painter
1850–1859 Louise Abbéma (1858–1927), painter, printmaker, sculptor Anne Huntington Allen (1858–1946), painter Laura Alma-Tadema (1852–1909), painter"Dictionary of Women Artists" Edited by Delia Gaze. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997, pp. 161-165. Anna Ancher (1859–1935), Danish painter Lucy Angeline Bacon (1857–1932), painter Alice Pike Barney (1857–1931), painter Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), painter Enella Benedict (1858–1942), American painter Susan Hinckley Bradley (1851–1929), American painter Molly Cramer (1852–1936), painter Annie I. Crawford (1856–1942), painter, printmaker Laura Ann Fry (1857–1943), ceramic painter Grace Woodbridge Geer (1854–1938), painter Anna Gerresheim (1852–1921), German painter Caroline Gotch (1854–1945), painter Laura Coombs Hills (1859–1952), painter Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), photographer Ida Pulis Lathrop (1859–1937), American painter Agnes Meyerhof (1856–1942), German painter Dora Louise Murdoch (1857–1933), painter Louisa Ellen Perman (1854–1921), Scottish floral painter Suze Robertson (1855–1922), painter Mary Crease Sears (1859 – 1938), bookbinder, cover designer Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope (1857–1944), sculptor, painter Marianne Stokes (1855–1927), painter Eva Stort (1855–1936), painter Austa Densmore Sturdevant (1855–1936), painter
1860–1869
Ester Almqvist (1869–1934), Swedish painter Helen Maitland Armstrong (1869–1948), stained glass artist Harriet Blackstone (1864–1939), figure painter Alice Boughton (c. 1866–1943), photographer Matilda Browne (1869–1947), American painter Elizabeth Eaton Burton (1869–1937), painter, printmaker, designer Sally Bush (1860–1946), photographer Evelyn Cameron (1868–1928), photographer Nellie Charlie (1867–1965), basket weaver Christabel Cockerell (1863–1951), painter Elizabeth Ethel Copeland (1866–1957), silversmith. enameler Kate Cory (1861–1958), painter, sculptor Alice Dannenberg (1861–1948), painter Jenny Eakin Delony (1866–1949), painter Lotus de Païni (1862–1953), Italian painter, writer, sculptor Cécile Douard (1866–1941), painter, sculptor Florence Dreyfous (1868–1950), painter Elisabeth von Eicken (1862–1940), German landscape painter Florence Esté (1860–1926), painter Johanna van Eybergen (1865–1950), applied artist and designer Norah Fulcher (1867–1945), portrait artist Frances Gearhart (1869–1959), printmaker and watercolorist Anne Goldthwaite (1869–1944), printmaker, painter Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley (1860–1958), painter Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947), painter Anna Hope (Nan) Hudson (1869–1957), painter Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952), photographer Lee Lufkin Kaula (1865–1957), painter Marie de Ford Keller (1860–1962), painter Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869–1958), painter Kiyohara Tama (1861 – 1939), Japanese painter based in Italy Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), painter Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), printmaker, sculptor, painter Jessie Lipscomb (1861–1952), sculptor Séraphine Louis (1864–1942), painter Bessie MacNicol (1869–1904), painter Jacqueline Marval (1866–1932), French painter Cornelia F. Maury (1866–1942), American pastel artist Blanche Hoschedé Monet (1865–1947), painter Grandma Moses (1860–1961), painter Iris Nampeyo (c. 1860–1942), potter, ceramic artist Clara Weaver Parrish (1861–1925) painter, stained glass Edith Mitchill Prellwitz (1865–1944), painter Alice Blair Ring (1869–1947), painter Adelaïde Alsop Robineau (1865–1929), ceramic artist Marie Rosenthal-Hatschek (1869 – 1942), painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946), painter Anna Page Scott (1863–1925), painter Janet Scudder (1869–1940), sculptor Josephine Hartwell Shaw (1865–1941), jeweler, educator Annie Ware Sabine Siebert (1864–1947), painter Martha Simkins (1866–1969), painter Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935), painter, illustrator Josefine Swoboda (1861–1924), Austrian portrait painter Ellen Thesleff (1869–1954), painter Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), painter Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938), painter Anna Lillian Winegar (1867–1941), painter and illustrator
The list ends with artists born in 1869. For later births see List of 20th-century women artists.
See also Women artists Lists of women artists List of women artists exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
References
Orford, Emily-Jane Hills. (2008). "The Creative Spirit: Stories of 20th Century Artists". Ottawa: Baico Publishing. .