Judith Leyster was mistaken for Frans Hals and not rediscovered until the end of the 19th century. But her smile was unmistakably her own. I love this self-portrait by Judith Leyster, a 17th-century ...

Art history hardly knew Judith Leyster—that is, until now. Today, 362 years after the Dutch painter’s death, Leyster takes the internet’s stage, featuring in the day’s Google Doodle, the search engine ...

Just before Christmas a Google Doodle offered tribute to the Dutch Golden Age painter, Judith Leyster (1609-1660). Leyster fell into obscurity in the centuries after her death partly because she did ...

The 17th century was a man’s man’s man’s world. But the Dutch painter Judith Leyster was so extraordinary that she achieved recognition for her mastery of genre scenes and portraits in her own time.

42.2 x 51.4 cm. (16.6 x 20.2 in.) ...

We have no record of Judith Leyster http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/leysterinfo.shtm hiring a publicist, so let's add "savvy self-promoter" to the baroque painter's ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Judith Leyster, the daughter of a brewer in the Dutch city of Haarlem, made a name for herself as a painter. She was one of the few professional woman artists of the period, and ...

Judith Leyster’s and Maria van Oosterwijck’s painting careers in 17th century Netherlands couldn’t be more different, besides having to assert themselves in a male-dominated society. Almost 400 years ...