Who Is Julia Margaret Cameron, the Victorian Woman Who Changed Photography?
A groundbreaking photographer, she helped turned the medium into art.
By Sarah Cascone
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/julia-margaret-cameron-changed-photography-2685732
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"Self-Portrait," Marie Benoist, 1786.
Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768-1826) was obviously very talented, having painted this while only in her teens. And she went on to be an acclaimed neoclassical and historic painter. She was initially trained under Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and later under Jacques-Louis David, so she had guidance from some of the top talent of her day.
She became an in-demand portraitist, and even had commissions from Napoleon Bonaparte himself. She enjoyed quite a big of success...until the Bonaparte era crumbled. In the face of growing conservatism in Europe, she tactfully retired from public life and only rarely painted.
I love the energy depicted here...it's so obviously the work of someone very young and very excited and confident.
From the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
#Art #SelfPortrait #NeoClassicism #MarieBenoist #WomenAritsts #WomenInArt
Three women translators who bridged cultures
Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet
by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via @europeana (from the archives)
https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures
Books by or translated by Émilie du Châtelet at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=%C3%89milie+du+Ch%C3%A2telet&submit_search=Search
Emily Sargent’s Long-Hidden Watercolors Debut at the Met
John Singer Sargent's sister steps into the spotlight.
In 2022, the heirs of John Singer Sargent made a major donation spread across seven museums in the U.S. and the U.K. These works were not by the famed Gilded Age society portraitist, but his younger sister Emily Sargent—an accomplished artist in her own right, being recognized for the first time.
by Sarah Cascone
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/emily-sargent-exhibition-metropolitan-museum-of-art-2660505
Emily Carr and Canadian Identity
At times at odds with her self and her role in society, Carr sought an identity in the landscapes and Indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest.
By: Emily Zarevich
Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door
"Magic and ideology are both practices of belief."
By Celia Bell
https://lithub.com/escape-from-the-land-of-the-dead-on-leonora-carringtons-the-stone-door/
How Black Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives and Communities Through Quilts
Exploring the Women of Color Quilters Network through SAAM’s collection
By Howard Kaplan
Quilts at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/5539
William Merritt Chase, the Accidental Ally
Painter William Merritt Chase opened an art school for a new generation of women, teaching them how to draw as well as how to advocate for themselves.
By: Anne Halsey
About William Merritt Chase at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=William+Merritt+Chase
