by artherstory | Mar 25, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Thomas Cooper, University of Cambridge Figure 1: Portrait photograph of May Morris by George Charles Beresford, 1909–10. William Morris Gallery, P644. On this day, one hundred years ago in 1923, the Arts and Crafts luminary May Morris (1862–1938;...
by artherstory | Mar 10, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Margaretta S. Frederick, Delaware Art Museum Figure 1. Marie Spartali Stillman, The Last Sight of Fiammetta, 1876. Watercolour, bodycolour and gum arabic, 82 x 62 cm. Bonhams, 21 September 2022, lot #50. A Long-Lost Painting Reappears In fall...
by artherstory | Mar 6, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Erika Piola, Library Company of Philadelphia Figure 1. Sarah Mapps Douglass, “A token of love from me, to thee,” c. 1833. Watercolor and gouache. Amy Matilda Cassey Album, Library Company of Philadelphia. At her death in 1882,...
by artherstory | Dec 29, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Ien G.M. van der Pol, Fem Art Collection To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux and Musée d’Orsay in Paris collaborated to organize an exhibition in her honor. Bordeaux was too far away but on...
by artherstory | Apr 20, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Jacqueline Thalmann, Christ Church, Oxford I recently wrote an Art Herstory guest post about two drawings by Elisabetta Sirani—a Self-Portrait and a Head of a Madonna. This took me back to the fascinating subject of self-portraiture,...
