by wpengine | Jul 5, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Paris Spies-Gans, Harvard Society of Fellows Although rarely acknowledged or discussed in these terms, the period from 1760 to 1830 was a watershed moment for women artists in Britain and France. In fact, it was in both nations in these exact...
by wpengine | Apr 19, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Heidi A. Strobel, University of North Texas Self-Portrait, c. 1785, by Mary Linwood (British, 1755–1845). Embroidery, 59 x 45.7 cm. Private Collection. Gallery Pioneer In 1809, embroiderer Mary Linwood (1755–1845) opened a gallery in...
by wpengine | Jan 11, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Stephanie Pearson, museums.love In two of the smaller rooms in Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, some thirty paintings have been assembled into a stimulating special exhibition about the artist Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721–1782), celebrating the 300th...
by wpengine | Nov 13, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Tori Champion, PhD Candidate, University of St. Andrews Alexander Roslin, Madame Marie-Thérèse Reboul Vien, 1757. Oil on canvas. Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. It was a mid-winter’s gathering of friends in Paris, late in...
by wpengine | Sep 22, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Andaleeb Badiee Banta, Senior Curator and Department Head of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Baltimore Museum of Art In 2020, as part of a year-long institutional initiative to purchase only art made by women, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA)...
