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SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS. 55
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hood are fresH and white as if veritably moulded out of snow . Miss Florence Peel works awayas she oddly tells us , for "
self-, improvement , " and if she abides with such pertinacious industry by her stones and ivy she will not go unrewarded . Her
paintings now look labored , but they will acquire a more easy power ; and they are some of the most creditable work on these walls .
Miss Adelaide Burgess has a pretty picture from " The Old Curiosity Shop ; " but her little boy could not be " looking up , " for he has no
pupil to his eye ; a serious oversight ! Miss Tekusch , whose lovely little icture of " The Wife " so attracted us last year , has now a
icture p called " The Comrades" which we do not like nearl p so wellbut the remarkably expressive , face of the man arrested our y ,
attention . Miss Ellen Cantelo has made a great advance this year . Her _" Wild Flowers " are most delicately painted , and the fragile
blue speedwell looks as if a breath would cause the petals to fall . Her larger icture " WatergateIsle of Wight , " is very careful , but
• overladen ; p there , is subject enoug , h for two pictures . Mrs . Swiffc has a charming picture of a doggie called " The Pet ; " we do not like
her others so well . Several other names we have marked , Miss Stoddart in landscape ; Miss C . James in flowers ; Mrs . C . B .
Hamilton for a clear and vivid sketch of the entrance to the Piraeus . Mrs . Roberston Blaine has a fine oil sketch of " The Colossi of
Thebes , " sitting solemnly , the light of dawn upon their blind blank brows , and the Nile water flowing round their feet . Among copies
we notice a good one from Sir Joshua Reynolds , by Madame Greata , and " La belle Chocolatiere" of Dresden , by Mrs . Popham .
In conclusion , we would earnestly ask one question of those who lanned this societyand those who are its members , or among its
exhibitors p . How is , it that so many of the best names are absent , that they have not been secured by treaty , or induced to heartily
volunteer ? Where is Mrs . Thorneycroft , and where is Miss Susan Durant ? We miss the names of Miss Fox , of Mrs . Robinson , of
Miss Howitt , who can paint such pictures as " The Sensitive Plant , " long so great an attraction at the Portland Gallery ; and of
so Jane widel B ago enh circulated am Hay , whose in the minor beautiful works editions as an of illustrator Longfellow have which been
artist everybod if y y she knows will . choose Miss Ann beautiful a Blundon subjects , who on will which be a to trul exercise y good
her laborious and conscientious brush , is missing this year ; and Miss Gilliesthe best known representative of the female artists
, of England , sends but one picture— " Vivia Perpetua in Prison . " Is Miss Mutrie afraid that all the other flowers ( and plenty of
them ) will fade before her finished brilliance ? If so , let her still come forward into this limited arena , and give them a standard of
excellence only inferior to that of nature herself .
Society Of Female Artists. 55
SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS . 55
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/55/
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