We are pleased to present our 3rd catalogue of the work of British women artists to coincide with the exhibition at Tate Britain of the work of women artists in Britain (1520 – 1920) from 16 May – 13 October 2024. The exhibition spans 400 years and follows women on their journeys to becoming professional artists. It sheds a light on the stereotypes of the past which saw many women artists dismissed as amateurs, and how many tackled what were usually thought to be subjects for male artists such as history paintings, battle scenes and the nude.

We are delighted to have been asked to lend to the Tate show our album of drawings by Sarah Stone (1762 – 1844) including early works depicting portraits, vegetables and male figure studies carefully assembled within a vellum bound accounts leger. We have long championed the work of this remarkable painter who was the first British female artist of birds and animals to gain professional recognition. Her drawings of birds are a highly important visual record of the specimens held in collection in late eighteenth-century England.