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Women Painters Of The World
''Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day'', assembled and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, is a book that lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of publication. The purpose of the book was to prove wrong the statement that "the achievements of women painters have been second-rate." The book includes well over 300 images of paintings by over 200 painters, most of whom were born in the 19th century and won medals and awards at various international exhibitions. The book is a useful reference work for anyone studying women's art of the late 19th century. List of women in the book *Louise Abbéma * Madame Abran ( Marthe Abran, 1866-1908) *Georges Achille-Fould *Helen Allingham * Anna Alma-Tadema * Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema * Sophie Gengembre Anderson * Helen Cordelia Angell *Sofonisba Anguissola * Christine Angus * Berthe Art * Gerardina Jacoba van de Sande Bakhuyzen * Antonia de Bañue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Catherine Of Bologna
Catherine of Bologna ( Bolognese: Caterina de' Vigri; 8 September 1413 – 9 March 1463)Stephen Donovan (1908). " St. Catherine of Bologna". In ''Catholic Encyclopedia''. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company. was an Italian Poor Clare, writer, teacher, mystic, artist, and saint. The patron saint of artists and against temptations, she was venerated for nearly three centuries in her native Bologna before being formally canonized in 1712 by Pope Clement XI. Her feast day is 9 March. Life Catherine came from an upper-class family, the daughter of Benvenuta Mammolini of Bologna and Giovanni Vigri, a Ferrarese notary who worked for Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara. She was raised at Niccolo III's court as a lady-in-waiting to his wife Parisina Malatesta (d. 1425) and became lifelong friends with his natural daughter Margherita d'Este (d. 1478). During this time, she received some education in reading, writing, music, playing the viola, and had access to illuminated manuscripts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Berthe Art
Berthe Constance Ursule Art (26 December 1857 – 27 February 1934) was a Belgian still life painter. Biography She was born in Brussels as the daughter of Ferdinand Art and Constance Luc. She never married and lived and worked on 28 Blanchestraat in Sint-Gillis (Brussels). she was trained by Alfred Stevens and advised by Franz Binjé. Her painting ''Study of Still life: Grapes and Partridges'' was included in the 1905 book ''Women Painters of the World''. Berthe Art exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Her paintings are sometimes referred as ''accessory still lifes'' as they widely involved representations of antiques, biblots and knick-knacks. Berthe Art would also give drawing and painting lessons to upper class girls. The painter Jeanne Maquet-Tombu was one of her pupils. She also gave a shelter to Roger Parent, the French painter who made a famous portrait of her. Circle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tina Blau
Tina Blau, later Tina Blau-Lang (15 November 1845 – 31 October 1916) was an Austrian landscape painter. Life Blau's father was a doctor in the and was very supportive of her desire to become a painter. She took lessons, successively, with August Schaeffer and Wilhelm Lindenschmit in Munich (1869–1873). She also studied with Emil Jakob Schindler and they shared a studio from 1875 to 1876, but allegedly broke off the engagement after a quarrel. Later, at the art colony in Plankenberg Castle, near Neulengbach, she briefly became his student again. In 1883, she converted from Judaism to the Evangelical Lutheran Church and married Heinrich Lang, a painter who specialized in horses and battle scenes. They moved to Munich where, from 1889, she taught landscape and still life painting at the Women's Academy of the (Munich Women Artists' Association). In 1890, her first major exhibition was held there. Blau exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Colu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lily Blatherwick
Lily Blatherwick (1854 – 26 November 1934) was an English painter. Biography Blatherwick was born in Richmond upon Thames and exhibited her works from 1877 at the Royal Academy. Her father, Charles Blatherwick, was a doctor and keen amateur watercolourist who had been involved in the establishment of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. In 1896, Blatherwick married the artist Archibald Standish Hartrick, who was the son of her father's second wife from her first marriage. The couple lived in Tresham in Gloucestershire for ten years. There they redecorated the small village church, whilst both pursuing their artistic careers. They both had works shown at the Continental Gallery in 1901 and her painting ''Wintry Weather'' was included in the 1905 book ''Women Painters of the World''. Blatherwick died in London, but was buried in the church graveyard in Tresham in 1934. Exhibitions Blatherwick contributed paintings to several exhibitions, including two floral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marie Bilders-van Bosse
Maria Philippina (Marie) Bilders-van Bosse (Amsterdam, 21 February 1837 – Wiesbaden, 11 July 1900) was a painter, famous for her landscape paintings in an early Dutch-impressionist style. Biography Marie van Bosse was a daughter of Pieter Philip van Bosse (1809–1879) and Maria Johanna Reynvaan (1809–1864). Her father was a lawyer and Minister of Finance in The Netherlands for more than twenty years. Because of his work at the ministry, the family moved to The Hague. Marie van Bosse was a niece of the artist Sara Stracké-van Bosse. At age eighteen Marie van Bosse decided that she wanted to become a painter – a rather unusual decision for a woman of that time. She was taught in painting by the Dutch artist Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen and frequently advised by Johannes Bosboom. It was Bosboom who encouraged her to exhibit her works. From 1875 she received lessons from Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811–1890). They married in 1880, with Bosboom and Hendrik Willem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marie-Guillemine Benoist
Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine Laville-Leroux (18 December 1768 – 8 October 1826), was a French Neoclassicism, neoclassical, History painting, historical, and Genre art, genre Painting, painter. Biography Benoist was born in Paris, the daughter of a civil servant. Her training as an artist began in 1781 under Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and she entered Jacques-Louis David's atelier in 1786 along with her sister Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux. Benoist first exhibited in the Exposition de la Jeunesse in 1784, showing a portrait of her father and two pastel studies of heads. She continued to exhibit at the Exposition until 1788. The poet Charles-Albert Demoustier, who met her in 1784, was inspired by her in creating the character Émilie in his work ''Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie'' (1801). In 1791, Benoist exhibited for the first time at the ''Paris Salon'', displaying her mythology-inspired picture ''Psyché faisant ses adieux à sa famille''. Anoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cecilia Beaux
Eliza Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942) was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Known for her elegant and sensitive portraits of friends, relatives, and Gilded Age patrons, Beaux painted many famous subjects including First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau. Beaux was trained in Philadelphia and went on to study in Paris where she was influenced by academic artists Tony Robert-Fleury and William-Adolphe Bouguereau as well as the work of Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas. Her style was compared to that of John Singer Sargent; at one exhibition, Bernard Berenson joked that her paintings were the best Sargents in the room. Like her instructor William Sartain, she believed there was a connection between physical characteristics and behavioral traits. Beaux was awarded a gold medal for lifetime achievement by the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and honored by Elean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lady Diana Beauclerk
Lady Diana Beauclerk ( Lady Diana Spencer; other married name Diana St John, Viscountess Bolingbroke; 24 March 1734 – 1 August 1808) was an English noblewoman and celebrated artist. Early life Beauclerk was born into the aristocratric Spencer family as the daughter of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, Charles, 3rd Duke of Marlborough (1706–1758), and the Hon. Elizabeth Spencer, Duchess of Marlborough, Elizabeth Trevor (d. 1761). Her siblings were George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, George (''later'' 4th Duke), Lord Charles Spencer, and Lady Elizabeth Spencer, Elizabeth, Countess of Pembroke. Her great-grandmother was the formidable Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. She was raised at Langley Park, Buckinghamshire, where she was introduced to art at an early age. Sir Joshua Reynolds was a family friend. Marriages and children On 8 September 1757, she married Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke (1734–1787). From 1762 to 1768 she was Lady of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mary Beale
Mary Beale () (16331699) was an English portrait painter. She was part of a small band of female professional artists working in London. Beale became the main financial provider for her family through her professional work a career she maintained from 1670/71 to the 1690s. Beale was also a writer, whose prose ''Discourse on Friendship'' of 1666 presents a scholarly, uniquely female take on the subject. Her 1663 manuscript ''Observations,'' on the materials and techniques employed "in her painting of Apricots", though not printed, is the earliest known instructional text in English written by a female painter. Praised first as a "virtuous" practitioner in "Oyl Colours" by Sir William Sanderson (historian), William Sanderson in his 1658 book ''Graphice: Or The use of the Pen and Pensil; In the Excellent Art of PAINTING'', Beale's work was later commended by court painter Peter Lely, Sir Peter Lely and, soon after her death, by the author of "An Essay towards an English-School", hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Amalie Bauerlë
Amalie Mathilde Bauerle (12 November 1873 – 4 March 1916), known as Amelia Bauerle, was a British painter, illustrator and etcher. She also used the anglicised name Amelia Matilda Bowerley. Early life Bauerle was born in the Bayswater area of London on 12 November 1873. She was the daughter of the German artist Karl Wilhelm Bauerle [:de:Karl_Wilhelm_Bauerle, de] (1831-1912), who had moved to England in 1869. Her siblings Karl Theodor Bauerle and Martha Bauerle also became artists. Career Bauerle studied at the South Kensington School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art at the Kensington Museum in London. At the Slade School she trained as an etcher under Frank Short. She then travelled in Italy and Germany. Bauerle exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy from 1897 until her death, and also exhibited in Paris and America. She was an associate member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Bauerle also contributed illustrations, typically Art Nouveau in style, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jeanna Bauck
Jeanna Bauck (19 August 1840 – 27 May 1926) was a Swedish-German painter known for her landscape and portrait paintings, and her career as an educator, as well as her friendships with Bertha Wegmann and Paula Modersohn-Becker. Early life Jeanna Bauck was born in 1840. She was the daughter of a German-born composer and music critic Carl Wilhelm Bauck (1808–1877) and a Swedish mother, Dorothea Fredrique (1806–1834). She had a sister, Hanna Lucia Bauck, and two older brothers, Emanuel Bauck, and Johannes Bauck. Jeanna was raised in Stockholm. She remained in Sweden until 1863, at which time she moved to Germany to study painting, first in Dresden and then in Munich where she met the Danish portrait painter Bertha Wegmann. The two became life-long friends, living together, sharing a studio, and travelling to Italy and Paris, where they lived a number of years before returning to Munich. Early career Her art education began under Adolf Ehrhardt in Dresden, then under Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marie Bashkirtseff
Marie Bashkirtseff, born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva (; – 31 October 1884), was an émigré artist who was born into a noble family on their estate near the city of Poltava. She lived and worked in Paris, and died at the age of 25. Life and painting career Bashkirtseff was born in Gavrontsi (Havrontsi) near Poltava, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine), to a wealthy noble family. Her father was a local Marshal of Nobility (Russia), marshal of nobility, Konstantin Pavlovich Bashkirtsev. Her mother Maria Stepanovna Babanina (1833—1920) also belonged to Russian nobles. Her parents separated when she was 12. As a result, she grew up mostly abroad, traveling with her mother throughout most of Europe, with longer spells in Germany and on the Riviera, until the family settled in Paris. Educated privately and with early musical talent, she lost her chance at a career as a singer when illness destroyed her voice. She then determined to become an artist, and she studied p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
