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Ii.—Female Artists. By An Italian.
sents Iier father standing between his son Asdrubal , and Ms daughter Minerva layin 1 . at chess Another and represents near them three an aged of woman her sisters all , of two whom of them seem
pg , , branch really alive of art . w In hich some in pain of her ting paintings as in literature there is demands a comic boldness vein , a
, , , of One concep of these tion works , spontaneity represents of a movement wrinkled , old and woman delicacy learning of touc the K .
has alp Milan habe ever t polluted , at that time li Ital ttle was y . child The subject Duke ma to kin S of g panish Alba fun , domina o ( f the her scourge t b ehind , the of Flanders her wors back t that , ) .
hearing of the artistic fame of Sofonisba , prevailed on Philip II . * to benea invite th her the to inquisition his court . yet He , bent ired on to the crushing title of the patron soul of of the Sp fine ain
artsand instructed the , Duke asp of Sessa to make the necessary arrangemen , ts with Sofonisba ' s father , for her going to Madrid . At the
court of Milan she was received with the most honorable welcome . Her first work was the portrait of the Duke , for which she received
f by por our trait So veils prani is of to not gold have now brocade been known a perfect to other be likeness magni extantj . ficen After but t presen this it is ts ( in rep . 1559 orted This )
she - was conducted with regal pomp to Madrid . Two patrician lains ladies and were six assi liver gned servants to her as . maids Phili and honor his , Queen also two came chamber out to - p
meet her on her arrival y , and she was sumptuously entertained at the p des alace troyed . She in set the to conflagration work forthwith of the on the Pardo Queen in ' s 1582 portrait . For , which her
was portrait and for t of hat Phili of D p II ., C s he los receive dressed d a in pension a lynx of skin two hundred and other crowns costly ,
raimentshe was rewarded , with a diamond worth one thousand five hundred , crownsOne after anothershe ainted the flower of the
Spanish , nobility . . She sent to Pope , Pius p IV . a second portrait of the Queen ; and in the letter accompanying it , dated 6 th September Holiness ,
1561 , we read— " If it were possible to represent to your the beauty of this Queen ' s soul , you could behold nothing more i
for the wonderful it work and as . " assure " well In the and rep that dili ly gentl which we y shall done Pius preserve , " IV an . d returned ad it among , " , we he thank our recog rarest n you ses you
treasures , . We commend your talent , which , marvellous though it be , is , as we hear , the least among the many also you sent possess . "—15 of th
October 1561 . With this letter the Pope a present other precious ladies , stones to and undertake relics set the in gems education . Phili of p the appointed Infanta her and , with was
very desirous , that she should marry hand a Spanish alread nobleman led , , that to she
mi Italian ght not Fabrizio leave Madrid Moncada . But feudal her Lord of was Siciland y p he ged bore her an , , y , of twelve
to thousand away bequeath to his crowns island it to , her and home son a pension . . The He also of King one presented gave thousan her her d crowns a with dowry a , dress with loaded power
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/32/
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