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The first painter of either sex known to have signed a self-portrait at an easel.
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At National Gallery.
Van Hemessen was working in Antwerp in the 1540s and left a self-portrait showing herself at the easel, brush in hand — the earliest known by any artist. A small free display of a sixteenth-century painter most people have never heard of.
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