Category

18th-century women philanthropists

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Catherine II of Russia

The eighth and greatest Emperor of Russia (r. 1762–1796)

Izabela Czartoryska

Polish princess (1746–1835)

Madame de Montesson

French noblewoman (1738-1806)

Barbara Sanguszko (née Dunin)

Polish-Lithuanian poet, translator and philanthropist (1718-1791)

Dorothy Boyle, Countess of Burlington and Countess of Cork

courtier; occasional painter; (1699-1758)

Elżbieta Sieniawska

Polish noblewoman

Catharina Backer

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1689–1766)

Anna Jabłonowska (née Sapieha)

Polish magnate and politician (1728-1800)

Zamindar of Rajshahi

Welsh philanthropist (1698-1779)

Spanish philanthropist

English heiress and art patron (d. 1743)

Zofia Lubomirska (née Korwin Krasińska)

Polish-Lithuanian noble (1718-1790)

Maria Wilhelmine of Thun und Hohenstein

Viennese patron of classical music