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206 THE SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS.
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_ ^ . The Annual Exhibition Of This Soci...
a crowd . of whom of young have male been students well trained aspire in the to the elements next of best art p in laces the ,
many possess classes just of the those Royal titles Academy to admission itself , , and in the who average therefore excellences are sure that of to
their workwhich women can with difficulty obtain . It is true small many p and ictures , delicate by female ill fitte artists d to are sustain admitted their , but own they amidst are in a general host of
highly coloured pictures , ; and en attendant that the women win their harm way into and the great better good places in their of setting these shining a quieter walls , exhibition there is surel of their y no
ownwhere the same technical qualities up are not as yet strictly demanded , and where patient studyand fidelity to the highest aims
of art , may , enable them one day to , compete with the best painters , general without The Old exhibitors any and reference the New none to Societ but sex . elected y of Water members Colours can hang are both their clo pictures sed to
there : each contains ; a few lady associates , but they are allowed no share in the management of the Society . We should be very glad
to see far a larger from wishing proportion to render of femal the e names admission in the a less catalogue exclusive , but test are
of very executive perfection . In the mean time it is not unnatural that the female artists should like a little space in which to expand .
Secondly , this Society affords a new industrial opening to women . draws It brings the a attention class together of the public , gives to them the number esprit de of corps those , and who forcibly follow
art as a profession , and will stimulate many a young painter who would Everything have despaired whichin of the the present Royal Academy needs of . society at largehelps
to social rouse relations the energy and professional , , concentrate status the of ambition working , women and support , is a , great the of
under setting step in their up advance in present rivalry ; let , opportunities or them by the not ridicule be , wholl deterre y of beside d a b and c y omparison the the accusation feel mark which . This that is ,
th Societ e R . y A may . ' s themselves be made a n will oble be means the first of self to hel give p , encouragement we sure and assistance
. We are , therefore , exceedingly rejoiced to see that many of the best female artistswho had conquered a place in the Royal Academy ,
have this year sent , in some works to the younger sister of all the exhibitions . Miss Susan Durant , the sculptor , has a statue in
marble of Robin Hood ( which stood in the nave of the Art-Exhibition in Manchester ) , also a bust in plaster of little Toussoun Pasha , and
a noble model for «• Warwick , the kingmaker , " offering a crown with dignified nonchalance . Miss Howitt has a sunset landscape ;
we wish that one of her delicately-wrought figure-pieces had been here also , to bear witness to the thoughtful poetry of the pupil
of Kaulbach . Mrs . Bodichon ( Barbara Leigh Smith ) has several
206 The Society Of Female Artists.
206 THE SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/62/
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