Like the Alma-Tademas, a Belgian family of talented painters who specialised in scenes set in Pompeii.
women in art
Specialised in painting mothers and their children, and fisherfolk of the Channel coast, she was highly successful and advanced career prospects for women painters.
How could a woman succeed as an innovative professional painter during the Renaissance, and live to the age of 92?
She started out as a successful illustrator, but for most of her working life painted rural cottages across southern England.
Elected the first woman Associate of the Royal Academy since it was founded, she had a very individual style, with a unique visual richness.
A woman artist painting nudes? Better than her husband? Keeping her maiden name too? She changed a lot of attitudes in her career as a painter.
Specialising in Dutch domestic scenes in the 17th century, she explored reflections, and was assiduous in authenticity of details.
A precocious painter of detail, her style appears to have undergone radical change by about 1900.
Known now from a single painting, she had a long, prolific, and successful career.
It has been claimed that she “gave up painting” after marrying her more famous husband in 1884. Did his best student really stop painting like that?
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