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Helen Allingham’s Country Cottages: Subverting the Stereotype

by artherstory | May 16, 2024 | News/Blog

Guest post by Amy Lim, Curator of the Faringdon Collection, Buscot Park, Oxfordshire Introduction The Tate Britain exhibition Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain, 1520–1920 (16 May–13 October 2024) examines the ways in which women artists navigated a...

Marie Spartali Stillman’s The Last Sight of Fiammetta

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...

Exhibiting Women: The Art of Professionalism in London and Paris, 1760–1830

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...

Mary Beale (1633–1699) and the Hubris of Transcription

by wpengine | Mar 26, 2021 | News/Blog

Guest post by Helen Draper, independent scholar and author Mary Beale, Self-portrait with husband Charles & son Bartholomew, c.1659–60, oil on canvas, Geffrye Museum. Detail, head of the artist. This week, in March 1633, clergyman John Cradock DD...
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