<P> Approximately fifty works have been attributed to Anguissola . Her paintings can be seen at galleries in Baltimore (Walters Art Museum), Bergamo, Berlin (Gemäldegalerie), Graz (Joanneum Alte Galerie), Madrid (Museo del Prado), Milan (Pinacoteca di Brera), Milwaukee (Milwaukee Art Museum), Naples (National Museum of Capodimonte), Poznań (National Museum, Poznań), Siena (Pinacoteca Nazionale), Southampton (City Art Gallery), and Vienna (Kunsthistorisches Museum). </P> <P> Sofonisba Anguissola's oeuvre had a lasting influence on subsequent generations of artists . Her portrait of Queen Elisabeth of Valois with a zibellino (the pelt of a marten set with a head and feet of jewelled gold) was widely copied by many of the finest artists of the time, such as Peter Paul Rubens . </P> <P> Anguissola is significant to feminist art historians . Although there has never been a period in Western history in which women were completely absent in the visual arts, Anguissola's great success opened the way for larger numbers of women to pursue serious careers as artists; Lavinia Fontana expressed in a letter written in 1579 that she and another woman, Irene di Spilimbergo, had "set (their) heart (s) on learning how to paint" after seeing one of Anguissola's portraits . Some of her more well - known successors include Lavinia Fontana, Barbara Longhi, Fede Galizia and Artemisia Gentileschi . </P> <P> A Cremonese school bears the name Liceo Statale Sofonisba Anguissola . </P>

Sofonisba anguissola's portrait of the artist's sisters and brother displays