Marie Spartali Stillman worked in the second wave of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and is often called the greatest woman painter that movement produced, which is reason enough to see her charted for counted cross stitch.
She was British, born in 1844 and died in 1927, and her subjects came from the stories the Pre-Raphaelites loved best: Antigone, Fiammetta singing, a garden that seems half enchanted. Portraits and religious scenes sat alongside landscape work in her output. What tends to stay with people is how much of her painting is built around a single figure caught mid-thought rather than mid-action. She kept at it for decades, and the pictures held their own beside those of the men she is grouped with.
Other nineteenth-century painters: Cesare Auguste Detti, John Faed, and Gyorgy Vastagh.
If it is the painting itself you love rather than the stitching, Marie Spartali Stillman art prints are easy to find.
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