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Woman Reading is a 19th-century (portrait painting) by Susan Macdowell Eakins. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1] Woman Reading probably depicts the artist's sister Elizabeth Macdowell Kenton. It is one of Eakins' many portraits of her family members in interior settings. [1]
Marie-Denise Lemoine was born in Paris to Charles Lemoine and Marie-Anne Rouselle. Two of her three sisters, Marie-Victoire Lemoine (1754–1820) and Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou (1755–1812), as well as distant cousin Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet (1767–1832), were all trained as portraitists.
The Nineteenth-Century Woman: Her Cultural and Physical Worlds (1978). Doughan, David, and Peter Gordon. Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960 (Routledge, 2014). Flanders, Judith. Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England (2004). Gleadle, Kathryn.
Self-Portrait (Kramskoi) Self-Portrait (Chassériau) Self-Portrait at 69 years; Self-Portrait in a Hat; Self-Portrait of the Artist with her Father; Self-Portrait with Palette (Manet) Self-Portrait with the Yellow Christ; The Spanish Singer; Portraits at the Stock Exchange; Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl; Symphony in White, No. 2: The ...
Valadon's self-portraits, portraits, nudes, landscapes, and still lifes remain detached from trends and contemporaneous aspects of academic art. [36] The subjects of Valadon's paintings often reinvent the old master themes: women bathing, reclining nudes, and interior scenes. She preferred to paint working-class models.
She was one of the "New Women" of the 19th century successful, highly trained women artists who never married, like Ellen Day Hale, Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Coffin and Cecilia Beaux. [8] Hale, Nourse, and Coffin "created compelling self-portraits in which they fearlessly presented themselves as individuals willing to flout social codes and ...
In February 2024, BBC news reported that the Museum of Somerset in Taunton, which holds a large collection of Sarah Biffin's work, had acquired a self-portrait by the artist. A watercolour by Biffin dated circa 1812 is located in the Welcome Collection in Euston Station in London. Additional works can be found at the National Portrait Gallery ...
Emma Soyer, Portrait of Alexis Soyer, 1841 (private collection, on loan to the Reform Club) Elizabeth Emma Jones was born in London in 1813, and was instructed in French, Italian, and music. At a very early age she became a pupil of the Belgian painter François Simonau (1783–1859), who in 1820 married her mother, Mrs. Jones.