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Jessie Marion King (1875-1949) was a Scottish illustrator. Born into a strict family who disproved of her art as a child, she found solace in the family houskeeper, who become her second mother. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art (1892–1899). She is known for her illustrated children's books. She frequently depicted ethereal "wan haloed knights" and pale ladies draped in stars, influenced by her lifelong belief in fairies. 
She also designed bookplates, jewellery and fabric, and painted pottery. Jessie was one of the artists known as the Glasgow Girls. She was described in 1927 in the Aberdeen Press and Journal as "the pioneer of batik in Great Britain".

Ende was a Spanish manuscript illuminator from 10th century. She worked on a group of manuscripts, of which there are 24 known copies with illustrations. These manuscripts contain the Commentary on the Apocalypse compiled by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana in 786. Her signature is in it. She signed the work as: ENDE PINTRIX ET DEI AIUTRIX. That is: Ende painter and helper of God.

Éva Carola Jeanne Emmanuela Antoinette Gonzalès (1849-1883) was a French painter and pastelist. Her mother was Marie Céline Ragut, a musician, and her father was Emmanuel Gonzalès, a novelist. She grew up in a world of artists, writers and poets. She was the pupil of painter Eugène Manet, who painted the famous painting of her of her in 1870. She usually decipted women. Her sister Jeanne Gonzalès-Guérard, also a painter, often served as her model. After Éva's death in childbirth, Jeanne raised her son and in 1888 married her widdower.

Clarice Cliff (1899-1972) was a British ceramicist and industrial designer. Born into a poor family of an ironmonger and a laundress, she started working at the pottery factory at the age of 13. She learned painting and design her aunt, who was a hand-painter. Relocating to another factory at 18, she rose up the ranks, till she become the head of factory creative department. Her designs were extremly popular in 1930s. She become one of the UK's most prolific and important ceramicists. During World War II only plain white pottery was permitted under wartime regulations, so she assisted with management of the pottery but was not able to continue design work. After the war she designed less as before and worked in managment of the factory and latter retired.

One of plates manufacteded after her Bizarre design is in Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.

Eva-Lisa Saarinen-Swanson, known as Pipsan Saarinen-Swanson, (1905-1979) was a Finnish industrial, interior, and textile designer who worked in USA. She was daughter of textile artist and sculptor Loja Gesellius-Saarinen and architect Eliel Saarinen. She studied weaving, ceramics, and fabric design at the Atheneum Art School and the University of Helsinki. She was known for her contemporary furniture, textile, and product designs. During her long and successful career she designed furniture, woven and printed textiles, clothing, metalwork, glass and interiors. She developed designs that could be mass-produced, in a sense offering the Cranbrook model to the general public. She also taught class on contemporary furniture design at Cranbrook.

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Eufrasia Burlamacchi (1482-1548) was an Italian artist, illuminator, miniaturist and mother superior. She was born in a rich merchant family in Tuscany and joined Dominican nuns at the young age. She studied the art of miniature with the Pisan master Sister Benedetta Arnolfini. She practiced the art of miniature for at least half a century, from the beginning of the sixteenth century until 1545.

Annie Sullings Gooding Sykes was an American Impressionist artist. She was born in 1855 to a seamstress and a silversmith. She began sketching in her teens, and in about 1875, she entered Boston’s Lowell Institute. In 1878, she transferred to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. After moving to Cincinnati in 1882 she studied at Cincinnati Art Academy.

She specialized in watercolors, focusing on garden, floral, landscape and coastal themes in her work. In the summers, she worked along the New England coast. She was a co-founder of the Woman's Art Club of Cincinnati and its president. Despite ill health in her later years, she painted until her death in Cincinnati in 1931; as noted in the Cincinnati Enquirer she: "worked up to the end, even when she was physically unable to do so. Her devotion to the art was one of the beautiful things in her eventful life."

Mary Morris, known as May Morris, was an English artist. She was born in 1862 to an embroiderer Jane Burden-Morris and an artist William Morris. She learned embroidery from her mother and aunt and later studied at National Art Training School. There she specialized in textiles and embroidery, notably Opus Anglicanum, a form of fine, rich needlework that developed in medieval England, used primarily for church vestments.

Starting at age 23, she ran the embroidery department of Morris & Co., defining its visual style for decades. She took this job directly from her mother, who led the department herself for over twenty years. May created many embroidery designs for the company. On some embroidery designs she collaborated with her mother.

She also worked as an embroidery teacher at the LCC Central School of Art and other art schools and also wrote a book about needlework for her students, Decorative Needlework, which is still referenced today. Around the turn of 20th century she started to design jewelry too. Examples of her jewellery are at Victoria and Albert Museum and Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales.

During the World War I, she helped with fieldwork in Kelmscott, where she lived, and ran a soup kitchen in the village.  She died in 1932 in Kelmscott.

Eliza Mary Burgess (1878-1961) was a British painter and designer. She was born in London where her father was a florist and gardener and her mother was a dressmaker. At the age of 19 she won a scholarship to the Royal Female School of Art where she won national prizes in several categories and at least three further scholarships. After graduation, Eliza Mary worked in London until she moved to Bristol in the 1950s and later lived in Scotland for a time. She mostly created watercolour and tempura paintings of flowers and gardens, child portraits and miniatures. She also painted some miniatures for Queen Mary's Dolls' House.

The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London hold examples of her work.

Maria Yakunchikova (1870-1902) was a Russian artist, graphic designer and embroiderer. She was born in 1870 in wealthy industrialist family, who were patrons of music. In her childhood, every Wednesday there was a concert in her family home by professional musicians, students of the Moscow conservatory and her mother, a skilled pianist and patron of musicians. However Maria, although she had what it took to be a pianist, stopped taking piano lessons because of a malady with her hand, devoting her life to visual art instead.

From childhood, she had studied drawing and painting under the mentorship of professional artists, and attending drawing evenings at the house of her half-sister Natalia Yakunchikova-Polenova, an artist and writer. Later she trained at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and then at the Académie Julian in Paris and, later still, at the printmaker Eugène Delâtre’s workshop, where she mastered the technique of colour etching.

In her art, she combined her experience of the Moscow school of painting and the achievements of contemporary European art, becoming one of the pioneers of Symbolism and Art Nouveau in Russia. She produced paintings, watercolours, designed book and magazine covers, created sketches for hand appliqués, and made toys and clay pottery. She also created painted panels using a technique of her own invention based on pyrography. She was inspired to plein air painting by Russian painter Elena Polenova. Her creative ambitions resonated with both Russian and European painters. She blended traditional Russian folk craft with European fin-de-siècle aesthetics. She also painted and designed tapisseries. She is famous for her covers for magazine Mir iskusstva (World of Art), a magazine which played a central part of the development of the Russian modernism movement.

She died in 1902 of acute tuberculosis which worsened after the birth of her second child eight months before. Her elder son latter become an architect, and had a daughter, Denise Weber (1929-1992), who become a watercolorist and illustrated books on zoology.

Elsa Gertrue Tennhardt was an artist and industrial designer who worked in USA. She was born around 1890 in Germany, and studied painting in Berlin before moving to New York in 1913. Shortly after arriving she attended the first worldwide Cubist exhibition with works of Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse at the New York's Armory Art Show with over 85,000 people in attendance, with inspired her greatly. She joined a New York artist community who taught her metalwork and welding, and supported herself by making silver cocktail shakers. In addition to her cocktail shakers, she also made silver plated vanity sets with modern looking hand mirrors, hairbrushes, cosmetic cases, and lipstick holders. After WWII she taught painting at the New York University art Department, and gave lectures on silver and design. She died in 1980 in Southampton, New York, USA.

Her works are preserved in the permanent collections of major institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Sibylla von Bondorf (sometimes her name is written as Sibilla von Bondorf) (1450-1524) was a German manuscript illuminator and nun in the order of Poor Clares. She primarily illuminated devotional books, music manuscripts and Alemannic legends of saints. She also painted a rule of the order of the Bicken Monastery in Villingen and hymn books of other Freiburg monasteries.

Elsbeth Töpplin was a 15th-century Alsacian scribe and illuminator. She arrived in Freiburg in a group of nuns from Schönensteinbach monastery in Alsacie in 1464 to reform the Dominican cloister of the Penitents of Saint Mary Magdalen. To reinforce the spiritual and political goals of the monastic reform, she copied and decorated liturgical texts. On some manuscripts she created there, she collaborated with famous scribe and illuminator Sibylla von Bondorf. Several of her illuminated or copied fragments are preserved today in institutions like the Augustinermuseum and the University Library in Freiburg.

The painting is at Musée Marmottan-Monet in Paris.

Minna Carolina Mathilde Louise Gesellius-Saarinen, also known as Loja Gesellius-Saarinen (1879–1968) was a Finnish artist. She was heavily influenced by Swedish craft tradition. She was one of the first artists to bring Scandinavian design to America. She founded the weaving department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.

Theodora Caccia, sister Orsola Maddalena, (1596-1676) was an Italian Baroque painter, Ursuline nun and abbess. She specialized in painting of religious themes, altarpieces and still lifes.

Marie-Antoinette Golay-Speich, also known as Mary Golay, (1864-1944) was a Swiss painter, poster artist and painting teacher, who specialized in still lives. She studied at the School of Industrial Art in Geneva and latter taught painting at the school she founded in Geneva (The Mary Golay School). Since 1904 she lived and worked in Paris.