Rosa Bonheur—Practice Makes Perfect

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...

Evelyn De Morgan: Painting Truth and Beauty

Guest post by Sarah Hardy, the De Morgan Foundation Mary Evelyn De Morgan, née Pickering, was born in London on 30 August 1855 to very well-to-do parents. Her mother, Anna, was the daughter of Walter Spencer-Stanhope of Cannon Hall in Yorkshire, and her father...

Anna Ancher’s Vaccination and Scientific Motherhood

Guest post by Alice M. Rudy Price, independent scholar Figure 1: Anna Ancher, A Vaccination, 1899, oil on canvas, 73 cm x 90 cm, Skagens Museum, Denmark, SKM 1944. Danish audiences celebrate the Danish painter Anna Brøndum Ancher (1859–1935) for her vibrant...