16th-century women artists – female painters, miniaturists, manuscript illuminators, calligraphers, engravers and sculptors born between 1500 and 1600.
Asia China Ma Shouzhen (c. 1548–1604) – Gējì and artist, painter, poet, and composer. Xue Susu (c.1564–1650? C.E.) – Gējì, poet, painter, archer. Qiu Zhu (fl. 1565–1585) – painter, daughter of painter Qiu Ying.
Japan Ono Otsū (1559 or 1568–1631) – noblewoman, calligrapher, poet, painter and musician.
Europe Italy See: List of Italian Renaissance female artists
Netherlands Marguerite Scheppers (active from 1501 onward) – miniaturist. Cornelia van Wulfschkercke (d. 1540) – miniaturist, pupil of Marguerite Scheppers Susannah Hornebolt (1503–c. 1554) – daughter of painter Gerard Hornebolt, gentlewoman attendant to queen Jane Seymour. First known female artist in England. Levina Teerlinc (1510s – 23 June 1576) – miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court. Daughter of painter Simon Bening. Mayken Verhulst (1518–1596 or 1599) – painter, miniaturist. Wife of painter Pieter Coecke van Aelst, mother-in-law of Pieter Brueghel the Elder, the first teacher of her grandsons Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder. Mechtelt van Lichtenberg (ca. 1520–1598) painter, mother and teacher of Cornelia and Margaretha toe Boecop. Catharina van Hemessen (1527–1587) – daughter of painter Jan Sanders van Hemessen. Margaretha toe Boecop (before 1551 – after 1610) – daughter of female painter of Mechtelt van Lichtenberg Cornelia toe Boecop (1551 – after 1629) – daughter of female painter of Mechtelt van Lichtenberghttps://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/BoecopCornelia Anna van Cronenburg (1552 – after 1590)https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Cronenburg – relative of painter Adriaan van Cronenburg. Colette van den Keere (1568–1629) – engraver, daughter of foundry artist Hendrik van den Keere Anna Roemersdr. Visscher (1584–1652) – artist, poet, translator, glass engraver. Clara Peeters (1589–1657?) – Flemish still-life painter from Antwerp Maria Tesselschade Visscher (1594–1649) – poet and glass engraver.
British Isles Jane Segar (?) – sister of William Segar, manuscript illuminator Elizabeth Lucar (1510–1537) – calligrapher Esther Inglis (1571–1624), miniaturist, worked in Scotland. Anne Gulliver, painter, wife of court painter John Brown (d. 1532)Tanja L. Jones (ed.). Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe. c. 1450–1700. P. 19 Alice Herne, painter wife of court painter William Herne (or Heron, d. 1580) Flemish females at Tudor court: Susannah Hornebolt (1503–c. 1554) – daughter of painter Gerard Hornebolt, gentlewoman attendant to queen Jane Seymour. First known female artist in England. Levina Teerlinc (1510s – 23 June 1576) – miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court. Daughter of painter Simon Bening.
France Suzanne de Court (fl. 1600) – enamel painter in the Limoges workshops, possibly the daughter of Jean de Court
Sweden Anna Swenonis (d. 1527) – nun, manuscript illuminator
Switzerland
Eva Abyberg (1588–1669)
Books Weidner, M.S. Views from Jade Terrace : Chinese women artists, 1300–1912 Yuho, Tseng. “Women Painters of the Ming Dynasty.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 53, no. 1/2, 1993, pp. 249–61. “Splendid Japanese Women Artists of the Edo Period”. Special Exhibition on the 120th Anniversary of Jissen Women's Educational Institute, at the Kōsetsu Memorial Museum, Tokyo, April 18–June 21, 2015 Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550–1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976 Heller, Nancy. Women Artists: An Illustrated History. New York: Abbeville Press, 1997. ISBN 0-7892-0345-6 J. Dabbs (ed.), Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550–1800. An Anthology (Farnham 2009).
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