Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D

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Clara Erskine Clement Waters. Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D

Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D

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INTRODUCTION

WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS

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Clara Erskine Clement Waters

Published by Good Press, 2019

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It was a fashion in England at this time for women to paint; they principally affected miniature and water-color pictures, but of the many who called themselves artists few merit our attention; they practised but a feeble sort of imitative painting; their works of slight importance cannot now be named, while their lives were usually commonplace and void of incident. Of the few exceptions to this rule I have written in the later pages of this book.

The suggestion that the nineteenth century cannot yet be judged as to its final effect in many directions has already been made, and of nothing is this more true than of its Art. Of one phase of this period, however, we may speak with confidence. No other century of which we know the history has seen so many changes—such progress, or such energy of purpose so largely rewarded as in the century we are considering.

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