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Orazio Gentilischi's daughter. She studied first under Guido, acquired much renown for portrait-painting, and considerably excelled her father's fame. She was a beautiful and elegant woman; her likeness, limned by her own hand, is to be seen in Hampton Court. Her most celebrated composition is Judith and Holofernes, in the Uffizi Gallery. She accompanied her father to England, but did not remain there long; the best picture which she produced for Charles I was David with the head of Goliath.
Artemisia refused an offer of marriage from Agostino Tasi, and bestowed her hand on Pier Antonio Schiattesi, continuing, however, to use her own surname. She settled in Naples, whither she returned after her English sojourn; she lived there in no little splendour, and there she died in 1642. She had a daughter and perhaps other children. [Adapted from Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)]
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