The Female Art Historians I Never Knew About

Did you know about the plethora of women art historians working pre-1900?

Dear Readers,

Lately, I’ve been looking into who gets to tell the story of art. While most of my shelves are stacked with the legendary feminist art historians of the 1970s – Griselda Pollock, Lucy Lippard, Samella Lewis, and more (as well as contemporary ones, too!) – I recently asked myself, did any exist pre-1900? Turns out they did. And they wrote ab…