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SOCIETY OF FEMALE AKTISTS. 58
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IX.—THE THIKD ANJSTTAL EXHIBITION OF THE
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It is intended to inake the Institution , in all its branches , selfsupporting-. The success of one such institution in London will
speedily give rise to others all over the country , and the _advantages thus conferred cannot fail materially to alleviate the difficulties
which surround educated women of small means , and women whose professional exertions are all upon which they have to depend .
This plan is already so far " organised that prospectuses can be had on lication to the Editors of the " English Woman ' s Journal , "
14 a app , Princes Street , Cavendish Square , W ., a stamp being- enclosed
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Society Of Female Aktists. 58
SOCIETY OF FEMALE AKTISTS . 58
Ix.—The Thikd Anjsttal Exhibition Of The
IX . —THE THIKD _ANJSTTAL EXHIBITION OF THE SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS .
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— —»« fr »~ - ¦ ¦ ¦¦ We our reasons gave at for some sympathising length , in with the this third Society number ; of of which this the Journal chief ,
one was , that it would foster and train up much female talent , which under present disadvantages of instruction could with difficulty
aspire to the walls of the Royal Academy . We are , however , compelled to observe , after two inspections of
the three hundred and seven pictures which find place on these walls , that unless some severer test of exclusion is applied to the works of
art submitted to the hanging * committee , it can hardly become the foster-mother of a noble school ; and is only too likely to make women
believe they paint like artists , when they only paint like amateurs . Our first impression , on glancing- cursorily over the walls , was of
a general pell mell of colors , blues , reds , yellows , and greens , unpleasantly contrasted in every direction , and an extraordinary
preponderance of children and flowers . There is a total want of the finish and harmonious tones of the two Water-color Galleries ,
and of the intellectual _brightness of the Koyal Academy . Here are no historical scenes , nor quotations from Goldsmith , and very few
distinct ideas , original or borrowed , in all the pictures in the room . But upon a close survey , we are bound to say that many of them
are very carefully painted , and that , if the bad ones had been refused admittancethe residue would have given much pleasure to the
, eye , if little food for the mind . We would fain , however , pause to inquire why Englishwomen , who write so well , and have so much to
express in writing , should have so few thoughts at the ends of their brushes ? Why are their pictures , or those of such as exhibit here ,
( for many of our best names are absent or scantily sustained in this year's catalogue ) so devoid of any peg of association to which
, memory can cling ? All true artists paint new truths ; teach us by
their superior insight something which we had not iseen before for
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 53, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/53/
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