A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Fontana, Lavinia

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4120422A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Fontana, Lavinia

FONTANA, LAVINIA,

Daughter of Prospero Fontana, a painter of Bologna, died in 1602, aged fifty. She was eminent as a painter, and was patronized by Pope Gregory the Thirteenth, a good portrait of whom by her hand is still extant.