One of the best portrait I’ve seen. It’s by a painter you’ve likely never heard of - Mary Black
While her work is stunning, rivaling and even better than most of her male contemporaries, on one of the first (and only) portraits she’ve done, she was forced to charge 1/100th of her asking price, and was told she would be slandered as “a slut” if she refused.
The work of women being criminally undervalued while being slandered since the beginning of time.