Who was the only eighteenth century female artist to become a successful history painter?



Unlike Peeters, the life of Louise Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun is well documented. She was the most successful, and expensive, portrait painter of the 18th Century, yet when the retrospective of her work opened at Paris’ Grand Palais in 2015, few outside academia had heard her name.

Who is the most famous female of all time?

Here are the 12 women who changed the world

  • Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) …
  • Anne Frank (1929 – 1945) …
  • Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014) …
  • Queen Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603) …
  • Catherine the Great (1729 – 1796) …
  • Sojourner Truth (1797 – 1883) …
  • Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) …
  • Malala Yousafzai (1997 – Present)

Who painted the woman and the painter?

What is this? Regarded as one of the most famous paintings ever made of a female, da Vinci created the Mona Lisa in 1506.
Mona Lisa (1506) by Leonardo Da Vinci.

Artist Leonardo Da Vinci
Year 1506
Medium Oil in Canvas
Dimensions 77 cm x 53 cm
Current Location The Louvre Museum, Paris