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XXVIII.—THE SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS. ^
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_ ^ . The annual exhibition of this Soci...
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Xxviii.—The Society Of Female Artists. ^
XXVIII . —THE SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS . _^
_ ^ . The Annual Exhibition Of This Soci...
_ _^ . The annual exhibition of this Society is now opened for the second
time , and presents a marked improvement upon that of last year . It may be considered as the first real test of its claims to public
interest , since we have heem given to understand that few of the p of ictures appearing exhibited under in the 1857 ausp . ices were of painted the new for institution the express . The purpose
committee did not organize their plans until the winter of 1856-7 , and could only avail themselves of such works as happened to be in the
studios . Heretherefore"we have now the result of the first year ' s work
of the femal , e artists , as connected with this Society , and it is very satisfactory to one who feels more interest in watching the
development of any female talent as applied to artistic study , than in weihing the exact relation such talent bears to the perfected
g of academicians and associates of the other sex . Indeed powers we feel some regret at the tone of comparison adopted by certain ,
contemporaries ; a comparison which the Society does not invite , and which is whollirrelevant so long as the domestic and
academical facilities afforded y to the female artist are so very far below those of a male student .
Two hundred lady _t artists , compared en masse with an equal number of gentlemen following the same profession , will inevitably
show a deficiency in those qualities of accurate work which the most ifted boy is forced to acquire ; and none but a working woman
herself ung can estimate the thousand hindrances placed in her path by domestic life as at present constituted , and by the customs of society
as at present imposed . For instance , how many of the painters who compose the Society of Female Artists would dare to imitate blouse Rosa ?
Bonheur in her convenient , we had almost said her inevitable , and We to prefer examine , therefore its dou , to ble take object this that exhibition of opening on its a new own fiel ground d for ,
, the emulation of the female student , and also a wider channel of industrial occupation , thereby relieving part of the strain now
bearing heavily on the few other profitable avocations open to educated women .
"We shall have little difficulty in showing that it accomplishes both these ends . Firstly , it has opened a new field where one was the control of its
Angelica own wanted members . The KaufFman , Eoyal among the Academy whom walls no is are woman wholl naturall y under has y been hung entered with a since large
proportion of their p ; ictures , and when these are duly accommodated ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/61/
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