Judith Leyster

On this day in 2009, the National Gallery of Art and the Frans Hals Museum held exhibitions to honour her legacy. Although her work was highly regarded by her ...

Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Her achievements were almost lost to history, but 17th-century painter Judith Leyster's talent is now well known.

Despite finding financial success with her art, her work went unknown as it was believed that only men had the talent to paint with such skill. Just a few years later, Leyster was admitted to Haarlem's' famous painter's guild and set up her own studio to showcase her work and teach aspiring artists. When she was 19, poet Samuel Ampzing called Leyster an artist of "good and keen insight."

Judith Leyster, a 17th-century Dutch painter, is the subject of a Google Doodle bringing her widespread recognition.

[According to the Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/01/25/art/8b0a9058-5375-4e57-8700-2beee8086470/), there is no record of a Leyster work having been hung in an institution or publicly sold prior to the 1892 lawsuit. 1630 self-portrait](https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/leyster-self-portrait.html) by Leyster that is held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and is now considered one of the most important images of a female artist at work. [a Leyster painting now belonging to the Louvre ](https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010059447)had long been billed as a Hals painting. And she sometimes had to fight for herself, as she did two years later, when she submitted a complaint to the guild that Hals, an artist with a similar style, had stolen one of her assistants. She only lived to be 50, but she is prized for her party scenes, whose inebriated revelers and lively musicians ended up defining that subgenre of painting during the era. In 1633, she was admitted into Haarlem’s most important artists’ group, the Guild of St.

The artist is the latest person to pop up above Google's search bar on the tech giant's home page.

X-rays of the painting show that she originally depicted a woman on the canvas. Not every Google Doodle appears in every country. It’s also the painting that inspired the