Woman Painting

How many women painters can you name? Probably very few, unless you happen to have studied art history and are interested in this branch of it. But here is one who deserves to be famous, though in fact her work was not really appreciated until the late 19th century -- Judith Leyster. Born in Holland in 1609, and died in 1660, she may have been a pupil of the great Dutch painter Frans Hals. Wikipedia says most of her work was done before she had children -- that figures! She does look delightful in this self portrait, doesn't she.