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Michaelina Wautier
Ended27 March 2026 – 21 June 2026·Ticketed — see website
This exhibition has ended.
The first UK exhibition of the Flemish painter's wide-ranging oeuvre, including grand history paintings and portraiture.
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Wautier was painting full-scale history pictures in seventeenth-century Brussels at a time the genre wasn't supposed to be open to women. She did them anyway, signed them, and was promptly written out of the canon for three centuries. The RA's restoration of that record closes mid-month. Go before the catalogue becomes the only way to see it.
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- Michaelina WautierMichaelina Wautier, Public domain
- RootsCourtesy of The Photographers' Gallery
- Sanlé Sory: Colour Years© Sanlé Sory, 2026. Courtesy of Tezeta.
- Snap Happy! How Children Became PhotographersCourtesy of The Photographers' Gallery
- Royal Academy of ArtsYair Haklai / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- The Photographers' GalleryThe wub / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National GalleryCarlos Delgado / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- National Portrait GalleryIstvánka / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Churchill War RoomsJenny Poole / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0