Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago, 1981.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Frances Reynolds | She was born into an English west-country professional or just-gentry family, and was a devout Anglican
, who cared about whether or not her friends went to church and disapproved of her brother Joshua painting... |
| Education | Charlotte Brontë | Both Charlotte and Branwell aspired to become artists. She studied drawing seriously, first with a private tutor, later at Roe Head, and after her return independently, by copying romantic illustrations from annuals such as Friendship's... |
| Education | Mary Stewart | Eden Hall school buildings and the surrounding landscape would later inspire the setting for her novel The Ivy Tree. The school emphasized training in the social graces and MS
later commented that I learned... |
| Education | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | DGR
attended King's College School
(from 1837 to 1841), where he studied with John Sell Cotman
. He led a desultory, bohemian life until in 1847, after finding the approach of the Royal Academy
stultifying... |
| Education | Edith Craig | EC
studied music in Berlin with Alexis Holländer
and at London's Royal Academy
, aiming to become a concert pianist. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 37 |
| Education | Louisa Anne Meredith | Sir Thomas Lawrence
, President of the Royal Academy
, tutored Louisa Anne Twamley (later LAM
) privately in art. Rae-Ellis, Vivienne. Louisa Anne Meredith: A Tigress in Exile. St David’s Park, 1990. 33 |
| Education | Anne Ridler | Downe House had been founded at Charles Darwin
's old home by Olive Willis
, a remarkable woman who was still headmistress, who exercised an important influence on AR
, and whose biography Ridler later... |
| Education | William Blake | His apprenticeship to a print-maker included training in drawing medieval tombs. He also studied for some time at the Royal Academy of Arts
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Hamlyn, Robin, and Michael Phillips. William Blake. Tate Gallery, 2000. 26 |
| Education | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
won a national competition for a two-year scholarship to the Royal Academy of Art
in London. Her name headed the list of competitors for the whole country Mulhallen, Jacqueline. “Sylvia Pankhurst’s Paintings: A Missing Link”. Women’s History Magazine, No. 60, 1 June 2009– 2024, pp. 35-8. 36 Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press, 1987. 29 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Strutt | The paintings he exhibited at the Royal Academy
were mostly landscapes; it may not be fanciful to see the influence of his marriage in the two titles he showed (for the first time) in 1819:... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Strutt | Her husband is last heard of exhibiting at the Royal Academy
in 1858. Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978. 535 Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Art. Henry Graves and George Bell, 1906, 8 vols. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Barbara Hofland | The couple first met through their shared profession of teaching. He had some reputation as a painter, having been exhibiting at the Royal Academy
for a decade as well as in Leeds; but his health... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Alma-Tadema | He had already, the previous year, exhibited at the Royal Academy
for the first time. Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Art. Henry Graves and George Bell, 1906, 8 vols. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
's brother Joseph Alfred
(known as Alfred) set up the famous family music firm, which gave a continuing framework to the publishing projects of his father. He managed the firm until 1856. Edward Petre |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Alma-Tadema | In London he became a highly successful painter and a member of the Royal Academy
, known particularly for classical subjects handled with richly-coloured sensuous detail that suggested the seventeenth-century Dutch painters. After his death... |
Timeline
March 1755: A committee of twenty-six artists produced...
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March 1755
A committee of twenty-six artists produced a plan for an Academy to improve and promote the arts.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
229-30
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
25 (1755): 127
December 1768: George III signed the papers for establishing...
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December 1768
George III
signed the papers for establishing the Royal Academy of Arts
. Angelica Kauffman or Kauffmann
was among the twenty-eight founding members who first met in January 1769 to hear an address by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1770 or 1771: Scottish painter George Romney did a portrait...
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1770 or 1771
Scottish painter George Romney
did a portrait of English painter Mary Moser
which shows her using the medium of oils, mark of the professional rather than the amateur.
“Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings”. National Portrait Gallery.
1777: Richard Samuel engraved his Nine Living Muses...
Women writers item
1777
Richard Samuel
engraved his Nine Living Muses of Great Britain (or Portraits in the Character of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo) for Johnson's Ladies New and Polite Pocket Memorandum for 1778...
June 1780: Angelica Kauffman was commissioned to create four ceiling paintings at Somerset House in London
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June 1780
Angelica Kauffman
was commissioned to create four ceiling paintings at Somerset House in London for which she received one hundred guineas.
Lyons, Hannah. “Angelica Kauffman”. Women’s Studies Group 1558 – 1837, 16 Sept. 2020, https://womensstudiesgroup.org/2020/09/16/angelica-kauffman/.
Lyons, Hannah. “Angelica Kauffman”. Women’s Studies Group 1558 – 1837, 16 Sept. 2020, https://womensstudiesgroup.org/2020/09/16/angelica-kauffman/.
Summer 1780: The Royal Academy's first annual exhibition...
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Summer 1780
The Royal Academy
's first annual exhibition to be held in the new Somerset House (built by Sir William Chambers
) topped all records, with attendance of 61,381 and receipts of £3,074.6s.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
239-41
April 1781: Giuseppi Baretti sought to make the Royal...
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April 1781
Giuseppi Baretti
sought to make the Royal Academy
exhibitions more accessible by publishing A Guide through the Academy.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
242
1797: The complete set of addresses delivered over...
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1797
The complete set of addresses delivered over the years to students at the Royal Academy
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
was published as Fifteen Discourses on Art.
Early May 1831 and 1832: Sarah Biffin exhibited at the Royal Academy...
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Early May 1831 and 1832
Sarah Biffin
exhibited at the Royal Academy
under her married name of Mrs E. M. Wright. Born without arms or legs, she became a skilled painter and embroiderer, holding her brush or needle in her...
April 1838: The National Gallery moved into its new facility...
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April 1838
The National Gallery
moved into its new facility at Charing Cross.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
204-5
25 November 1841: Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey died, leaving...
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25 November 1841
Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey
died, leaving conditions in his will that after the death of his wife, more than £100,000 would be left to set up a national public collection of fine art in Britain.
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
57
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1 May 1843: Richard Redgrave exhibited his painting The...
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1 May 1843
Richard Redgrave
exhibited his painting The Poor Teacher at the Royal Academy
.
Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painters. Barrie and Jenkins, 1978.
114
Athenæum. J. Lection.
812 (1843): 492
McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
3
7 May 1848: The Royal Academy exhibition presented 1474...
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7 May 1848
The Royal Academy
exhibition presented 1474 works by 853 exhibitors; of these, only 126 works were by 77 female artists, a scant 10% of the total.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
27-8
McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
3
: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded...
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Autumn 1848
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
was founded in rebellion against the constraints and techniques of art as practised by the Royal Academy
.
Bell, Quentin. Victorian Artists. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
31-2, 38
Chilvers, Ian, editor. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, 1990.
373
Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painters. Barrie and Jenkins, 1978.
15
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
15
Knight, Joseph, 1829 - 1907. The Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Kennikat Press, 1972.
23
: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting The Girlhood...
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Spring 1849
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
's painting The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (featuring Christina Rossetti as its model) appearing at the Free Exhibition at Hyde Park Gallery
, was the first to display the initials of the...
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