Responding to & in celebrating women in our collection by choosing our founder that was not only a talented actress but also artist, leaving us a great legacy in her wonderful paintings

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This champion is the world's top-ranked filly & the world's top-ranked turf horse. With 25 consecutive stakes including 18 Group 1's, is currently taking a well-deserved holiday after tying Black Caviar's record! pic via

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Described by as a 'filly of a lifetime' she dominated middle-distance horse in Europe in 2017, taking a number of titles including the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe with Frankie. image via

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Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Madame de Pompadour was the mistress of king Louis XV. She used works of art to captivate the king and to cultivate her own image. François Boucher’s portraits were central to her self-presentation.

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One of our favourite Twitter weeks kicks off with the great hashtag - the perfect time to highlight Ethel Smyth, Amy Pascoe, Lady Margaret Beaufort and all the inspiring https://t.co/0J0ScyFgw6

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Adela Breton was not your typical Victorian woman. In 1892, she went to Mexico for the first time and made painstakingly accurate copies of the wall paintings in Mayan ruins. Her copies are now the only full record of what was there

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Pablo Picasso, Femme assise sur la plage, 10 février 1937
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En savoir + sur ce chef-d'oeuvre de nos collections: https://t.co/Af9J8pHejQ

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Known as ‘the Swiss’ at court, Henrietta Howard was admired for her tact, diplomacy and discretion: https://t.co/k0SvWuQrti

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Monday's theme for is
Here are paintings by Elizabeth Blackadder, Joan Eardley, Anne Redpath & Dorothy Johnstone, four modern women artists represented in 's art collection

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Fresco with a girl who reads from Excavations https://t.co/iq4vaJZAXu

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Our project celebrates some of significant women: Mary Murdoch - Hull's first woman GP; pioneering aviator Amy Johnson and Lillian Bilocca - leader of the Headscarf Revolutionaries who campaigned for safer conditions on board trawlers

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A female Taiwanese artist, Chen Jin (1907-1998), was the only well-known female painter before 1945 of the colonial period. Her focus was primarily in gouache painting, with a special emphasis on figures paintings.

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愛する男を追って日高川までたどり着いた清姫を描いた一枚。よーく見ると髪の毛の先が蛇の舌のようにも見えませんか?このすぐ後、彼女は蛇へと変化し自らを裏切った男を焼き殺すことになるのです。

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Redécouvrez toutes les femmes qui ont marqué la vie de dans notre 🎨 https://t.co/U0ufjW4sig

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👸 On attaque la journée avec Marie de Bourgogne, fille du duc de Charles le Téméraire, représentée dans deux de nos manuscrits

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Lilian Lancaster (1852–1939) was a well-known English actress, singer and stage performer with a notable talent for drawing cartoons and caricatures, often of a cartographic nature. https://t.co/H6u8M61z1l https://t.co/9kxmvwRUm3 https://t.co/ZK3jOhJuGg

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Starting by introducing Nancy Adams, one of New Zealand's foremost botanists and botanical artists who joined the Dominion Museum (now us) in 1959

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Alice Barber Stephens co-founded the Plastic Club, the oldest art club for women -> https://t.co/0qXxVDbrUQ

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Balearic Peony (Paeonia cambessedesii). by Welcome to this week's https://t.co/OX1wrpuyrW

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"The Little Traveller," 2 sketchbooks by an anon. artist that show a little girl travelling through a fantastical world.

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