List of 16th-century women artists

Portrait of Elizabeth I attributed to Levina Teerlinc, c. 1560–5. The Royal Collection.

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)
• 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 Lichtenberg
• Anna van Cronenburg (1552 - after 1590) - 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?)
• Anna Tymansdr. Steyn (1589-1618) - calligrapher
• 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), worked in Scotland.
• Anne Gulliver, wife of court painter John Brown (d. 1532)
• Alice Herne, 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).