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128 EXHIBITIONS OF FEMALE ARTISTS.
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The Ei And Ghth Comprises Annual A Exhib...
sisters highest in talent what to is combine set forth with to the their worl more d as moderatel an exposition y gifted of
feminine ability . It is hardly to be expected that such women from should mere do this disinterested , not for once generosity but continuousl ; though y , year were after a system year ,
arranged which should make it in some measure a mutual co benefit -operation , it is ' hardl The Committee y probable of th the at Society they would of Femal refuse e Artists such
. would do well to consider whether their scheme is not susceptible of revision whether at present they really offer anything likely
to induce the ; hihest class of female artists to become members of their Societ g and if notwhether they could not devise an
organization which y , should place , on their list some names now / them u consp as icuous would b make y their th absence eir annual , " and exhibition attract reall such ladies and trul among an y y
exponent of the state of art among Englishwomen of the present day From . this display of our maturer female artists we turn to
. the Queen nurs S ery quare of , feminin Bloomsbury e art , , the where u rose a - succeeding bud garden generation of girls , " in is
being trained to take the place of the " queen roses" in days school to come for . th One at of name Miss at C . least James , now thoug links h it the has long societ graced y to the the
catalogue , of Members of the former , , is not yet erased from the the list work of students s produced in the in latter the school , and in which the Annual were shewn Exhibition to the of
public on the 14 th and 15 th of Mar , ch , a study of a " Lily , " by Miss James was one of the chief ornaments . A little blotchiness
and carelessness of execution in the smaller stem at the side , rather impairs the perfection of the wholebut the principal
stem leaves nothing to be desired ; the fLower , which turns to the ] ihtradiant in sun-lit whitenesscontrasting charmingly
with the g one , in a reversed positionwherein , the tender shadow veilsbut does not stain its de , ths . Miss Jameshowever
, pure p , , rath must er look ( since to her why laurels should , for there a rival not be is gaining room for fas both t upon ?) she her may , or
prepare , gracefully to share one spray of them with a younger competitor , for Miss M . A . Julyan ' s exquisite " Azaleas "
might well have borne the signature of the elder lady , and the sam Miss e mig S ht . M almost 'Gregor be _' s said groups of her are " Chrysanthemums next in excellence . " , her
Christmas roses and ferns being very life-like , but the masses Her of lig wild ht and roses shadow are beautifull are too distinct y soft , and being delicate divided thoug as b , h y a rather line .
heavy from deficiency in brightness ; but the damask , rose in
another group is peculiarly rich in colour , and shows great
128 Exhibitions Of Female Artists.
128 _EXHIBITIONS OF FEMALE ARTISTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 128, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/56/
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