Celebrated painters

(especially females praised for the wrong reasons)
are often pretty bad.
This is one of the better ones by Vigée le Brun,
who commanded huge prices :
Portrait of her daughter

(All her subjects have big soft-porn Tretchikoff eyes.)

Here is one by current pin-up,
Frida Kahlo.

And here is a self-portrait by a truly great painter,
Gwen John :

Then there is the brilliant, exuberant Alice Neel :