Detail of Family Dog
Lavinia Fontana
Lavinia Fontana, (born 1552, Bologna [Italy]—died August 11, 1614, Rome), was an Italian painter of the Mannerist school and one of the most important portraitists in Bologna during the late 16th century. She was one of the first women to execute large, publicly commissioned figure paintings. Fontana studied with her father, Prospero Fontana (c. 1512–97), a minor painter of the school of Bologna, who taught his daughter to paint in the Mannerist style. By the late 1570s she was known in Bologna for painting fine portraits. Fontana’s works were admired for their vibrant color and the detail of the clothes and jewelry that her subjects wore. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lavinia-Fontana