paintress
/ˈpeɪntrɪs/ /peɪnˈtrɛs/noun
1A woman who paints pictures; a female artist who works with paint.
- Frequently with of and the name of the artist's preferred subject or type of painting, and as the second element of analogous compounds. Painter is now often preferred to paintress as not being gender-specific..
2A woman employed to paint ceramics.
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Boccaccio's De Claris Mulieribus.