On the trail of the first women painters in old Poland

The article presents the Polonica in the works of Italian women painters, and the accounts about the activity of women painters in Poland. An amateur woman painter from the upper classes was Maria Eleonora, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau (1671–1756), wife of Jerzy Radziwiłł. The professional women painters in the first half of the 18th century were Wilelm Włoch’s wife and daughter, who contributed into the creation of his frescos and altar paintings in the Church of Norbertine Sisters in Imbramowice. The daughter single-handedly painted two altar paintings preserved in the Church of Bernardine Sisters in Kraków.

The article presents the Polonica in the works of Italian women painters, and the accounts about the activity of women painters in Poland. An amateur woman painter from the upper classes was Maria Eleonora, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau (1671–1756), wife of Jerzy Radziwiłł. The professional women painters in the first half of the 18th century were Wilelm Włoch’s wife and daughter, who contributed into the creation of his frescos and altar paintings in the Church of Norbertine Sisters in Imbramowice. The daughter single-handedly painted two altar paintings preserved in the Church of Bernardine Sisters in Kraków.