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Michaelina Wautier review: Intensely pleasurable look at neglected female artist
Now here’s a thing. At a time when women painters have never been more prized and sought-after, at the Royal Academy we find an almost unknown mid-seventeenth century Flemish female artist who would be at ease in any collection featuring Rubens and Van Dyck. Michaelina Wautier, along with her brother Charles, was for centuries lost to view, despite her obvious standing as an artist during her career and her distinguished patrons. Indeed, it was only really in 2018 that she came on the radar with an ambitious exhibition of her work in Antwerp. Now the hunt is on for other works by her, but for now, most of her known (or assumed) paintings are assembled in the Royal Academy for this intensely pleasurable exhibition.
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