18th Century Knitters

Last updated: Sep 11, 2025

Related pages in the 18th century notebook: knitting sheaths, stockings, knit mitts, Scotch bonnets, and babies’ knit shirts, as well as knit clothing and accessories from the 10th-17th centuries.

• Young woman sitting on a chair by Edme Bouchardon, 1730s
• A girl knitting/A young girl knitting by Philippe Mercier (also Domestick Employment: Knitting
• Lady in candlelight
• A girl knitting, attributed to André Bouys
• The governess by Jean-Siméon Chardin, 1739
• The prude, c. 1740s-1760s
• Lady Maynard by Paul Sandby, c. 1757
• Young Knitter Asleep by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1759
• Madame de Chamilly, femme du premier valet de chambre du Roi by Carmontelle, 1760
• Countess Tolstaya, née Lopukhina by Ivan Argunov, 1768
• Lady Chambers by Paul Sandby, c. 1770-1780
• Interior from Näs estate by Pehr Hilleström, c. 1775
• The Uncultivated Genius by David Allan, 1775
• An old lady knitting, 1776
• Lotte hands pistols to Werther’s servant by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1777
• In der Nähstube by Daniel Chodowiecki
• A girl seated by a window knitting, c. 1780-1799
• My grandmother knitting, c. 1780-1812
• The gypsie fortune-teller, 1783
• A visit to the grandmother, 1785
• View of the Eagle Tower at Caernarvon by Paul Sandby, 1786
• Les Malheurs de l'amour (The Sorrows of Love) by Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1790
• Two old people sitting on a couch, c. 1790-1810
• Les Tricoteuses Jacobines, ou de Robespierre by Pierre-Etienne Leseur, 1793
• Woman from La Rochelle, 1796
• A knitting lady by Warner Horstink, 1799
• Figure studies by Nicholas Pocock
• Madame Gérard, wife of Henri Gérard by Marguerite Gérard
• Italian woman in an interior attributed to Jacques Sablet
• The grandfather, 1811