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Nineteenth-Century Women Artists

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The nineteenth century saw the emergence of more professional women artists than ever before. But they still faced the age-old presumption: that a womans role in life was to marry and have children. If they were ambitious enough to flout convention, they were still hampered by their lack of proper training. But from mid-century onwards, women were able to attend private art schools in Paris and could, for the first time ever, study the nude figure. Paris was the centre of the art world, the fountainhead of revolutionary styles of painting - Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Cubism - which succeeded one another with bewildering speed. Many of the artists who flocked to the city were the emancipated New Women who had the confidence to take advantage of their new-found freedom and of a thriving art market. This book examines the careers of well-known artists like Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, but also of artists who have been consistently ignored by museums, galleries and art historians. It introduces superb artists from not just France, but America, Britain, Scandinavia, Finland and Russia. The chapters describe the life of foreign students attending the Paris art schools; the artistss colonies that spread throughout Europe; the young Americans who travelled to Rome to pursue careers as sculptors; and the often tragic lives of women who acted as muses to male artists. The book is enriched with sixty illustrations in glorious colour.

Caroline Chapman worked in West End art galleries, then as a freelance picture researcher for many of the principal UK publishers before becoming an editor and author. Her publications include Elizabeth and Georgiana: The Duke of Devonshire and his Two Duchesses; John and Josephine: The Creators of the Bowes Museum and Eighteenth-Century Women Artists: Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs. She is married and lives in North Yorkshire.

· A beautifully-produced book illustrated with sixty glorious, largely unseen works of art
· Explores the life and work of women artists, many of whom are unknown
· Proves that women artists could produce work of equal quality to men
· Introduces little known artists from Scandinavia, Finland and Russia

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