paintress means A female painter. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From Middle English peyntrys, from Old French peintresse; equivalent to painter + -ess.
noun
- A female painter.“Oosterwyck (Maria Van), a celebrated Dutch paintress of flowers and fruit, born at Nootdrop, a small town near Delft, in 1630.”