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Author Devereux, Joanna, 1962- author.

Title The making of women artists in Victorian England : the education and careers of six professionals / Jo Devereux.

Publication Info. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "When women were admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1860, female art students gained a foothold in the most conservative art institution in England. The Royal Female College of Art, the South Kensington Schools and the Slade School of Fine Art also produced increasing numbers of women artists"-- Provided by publisher
Contents Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments ; Preface ; Introduction ; One. Women Artists' Networks at the South Kensington, Royal Academy and Slade Schools, 1860-1910; Two. "The golden spectacles": Reading Kate Greenaway through Her Mentors; Three. "On the line" at the Royal Academy: Elizabeth Butler and Motion; Four. The Iconography of "Happy England": Helen Allingham's Genre Paintings; Five. Galatea Reversed: Princess Louise and Nineteenth-Century Women Sculptors.
Six. "The spirit which animated the workers": Evelyn De Morgan's Aesthetic MannerismSeven. "[Un]winding the Skein": Henrietta Rae and the Undraped Nude; Appendix: Artists and Schools ; Chapter Notes ; Bibliography.
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Subject Women artists -- England.
Art -- Study and teaching -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Art, Victorian -- England.
Art and society -- England -- History -- 19th century.
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
Art and society.
Art -- Study and teaching.
Art, Victorian.
Women artists.
England.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Devereux, Joanna, 1962- Making of women artists in Victorian England. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016 9780786494095 (DLC) 2016030397 (OCoLC)948560997
ISBN 9781476626048 (electronic bk.)
1476626049 (electronic bk.)
9780786494095
0786494093