Victorian England Queen Victoria, reign: 1837 and photograph
Barbara Smith Bodichon ( ) “Feminist with a Paintbrush” An era of progress and repression 1865 Elizabeth Garrett and Emily Davies present the petition for Women’s rights to John Stuart Mill MP
Barbara Smith Bodichon, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, 1856, watercolor
Feminine Subjects “Feminine” Subject Matter Women as subjects in art Archetypes of women
Emily Mary Osborn, A Golden Day Dream, n.d., 21 x 36 inches Emily Mary Osborn, Nameless and Friendless, 1857
A Golden Day Dream by Emily Mary Osborn, n.d., Oil on canvas, 21 x 36 inches.
Presentiments, c.1859, Oil on canvas, 34 1/2 x 45 inches
William Holman Hunt, The Awakening Conscience, Oil on canvas 29 1/4 x 21 5/8 inches The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Ophelia by Sir John Everett Millais, x 44 inches. Oil on canvas.
Modeling was considered one of the most immoral careers a woman could have. Etching by Ramus after the painting by Maurice Bompard, 1881, Etching published by Barrie, 1893.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Regina Cordium, 1860 Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829 – 1862) Self-Portrait,
Ophelia by Sir John Everett Millais, x 44 inches. Oil on canvas.
The Ladies' Lament from the Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens, 1856, watercolor Lady Clare, 1857.
Elizabeth Siddal, The Lady of Shalott at her loom, 1853 Pen and ink on paper
Elizabeth Siddal, 1853 John William Waterhouse, John William Waterhouse, 1888 William Holman Hunt, 1897
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A Vision of Fiammetta, 1878 Model: Marie Spartali Stillman Marie Spartali Stillman, photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron
Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni, 1884, gouache and watercolor on paper 78x61cm Marie Spartali Stillman
Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni, 1884, gouache and watercolor on paper 78x61cm Marie Spartali Stillman
Messer Ansaldo Showing Madonna Dianora his Enchanted Garden, 1889
Evelyn Pickering De Morgan “Art is eternal. Life is short.” The Dryad, , 40 x 17 in.
Cadmus and Harmonia 1877, 40 x 17.5 in.
Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, c. 1482
Medea, 1889
The Pale Complexion of True Love, 1899 Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
The Little Foot Page, 1905
The Uninvited Guest, 1906
Marie Spartali Stillman St. George, watercolor and pencil, 1892 Knight with Child, n.d. Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Henrietta Rae Hylas and the Water Nymphs
French, American, English ? Pre-Raphaelite? painter Pre-Raphaelite Sophie Anderson
Sophie Anderson, Birdsong, c. 1860
Take the Fair Face of Woman... a.k.a. The Fairy Queen
The Children's Story Book, 1892,Oil on canvas
No Walk Today, 1854
Foundling Girls at Prayer in the Chapel, 1877
The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras, Oil on canvas x cm Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler)
Scotland Forever!, 1881
Napoléon at the Battle of Austerlitz, by François Gérard, 1810
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