This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage, authors highlight the contributions of women art makers in the Netherlands, showing that women were prominent as creators in their own time and deserve to be recognized as such today.

[Elizabeth Sutton](https://sites.google.com/site/elizabethannesuttonphd/home) is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Northern Iowa. She has published *Art, Animals, and Experience: Relationships to Canines and the Natural World* (Routledge, 2017), *Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age* (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and *Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa* (Ashgate, 2012). Her current research interests include feminist historiography and mapping place and migration with art history.

1. Introduction: An Historiographical Perspective on Women Making Netherlandish Art History." Elizabeth Sutton.2. "Catharina Van Hemessen's Self-Portrait: The Woman Who Took Saint Luke's Palette." Céline Telon. 3. "By Candlelight: Uncovering Early Modern Women's Creative Uses of Night." Nicole Cook. 4. "In Living Memory: Architecture, Gardens, and Identity at Huis ten Bosch." Saskia Beranek.5. "The Arachnean Artist in Lovelace's "Princesse Löysa Drawing." Lindsay Reid. 6. "Reclaiming Reproductive Printmaking." Amy Frederick. 7. "Towards an Understanding of Mayken Verhulst and Volkcxen Diericx." Art DiFuria.