Women artists in all ages and countriesEllet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries)
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Women artists in all ages and countries
Ellet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries)
Women artists
Many of her works have been engraved. The Dresden Gallery has the
largest collection, numbering one hundred and fifty-seven pieces.
The engraving of Rosalba’s portrait shows a youthful face, with a
pleased expression of childish innocence. The hair is brushed back
from the forehead on the top, but curls cluster around the face on the
sides; earrings are worn, and the corsage is low. The eyes are dark,
the forehead is high, and the whole head has a graceful air.
Like Rosalba Carriera, Ippolita Venier was a native of Venice, though
she lived at Udina with the painter her father. In 1765 she painted the
Adoration of the Kings, for a church in the sea-born city. Felicità
Sartori was a pupil of Rosalba, and worked in Dresden, whither she went
with her husband.
Apollonia de Forgue, born in 1767, assisted her husband, Seydelman,
with his pictures. She was a member of the Academy in Dresden.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
More vigorous Growth of the Branches selected for female
Enterprise.--Progress accelerated toward the Close of last
Century.--Still more remarkable within the last fifty Years.--Great
Number of Women active in Art.--Better intellectual Cultivation
and growing Taste.--Increased Freedom of Woman.--Present Prospect
fair.--Growing Sense of the Importance of Female Education.--Women
earning an Independence.--The Stream shallows as it widens.--Few
Instances of pre-eminent Ability.--Fuller Scope of the Influence
of the French Masters in the nineteenth Century.--David, the
Republican Painter.--His female Pupils.--Angélique Mongez.--Madame
Davin and others.--Disciples of Greuze.--Female Scholars of
Regnault.--Pupils of the Disciples of David.--Pupils of Fleury
and Cogniet.--Madame Chaudet.--Kinds of Painting in Vogue.--The
Princess Marie d’Orleans.--Her Statue of the Maid of Orleans.--Her
last Work.--Promise of Greatness.--Sculpture by Madame de
Lamartine.--“Paris is France.”--Painting on Porcelain.--Madame
Jacotot and others.--Condition of Art in Germany.--Carstens.--Women
Artists.--Maria Ellenrieder.--Louise Seidler.--Baroness von
Freiberg.--Madame von Schroeter.--Female Artists of the Düsseldorf
School.--The greatest Number in Berlin.--Rich Bloom of Female Talent
in Vienna and Dresden.--Changes in Italy.--Prospect not fair in Spain
and Scandinavia.--In England, Sculpture and Painting successfully
cultivated.--Fanny Corbeaux.--Superior in Biblical Scholarship.--The
Netherlands in this Century.--Encouragement for Women to
persevere.--Dr. Guhl’s Opinion.--History the Teacher of the Present.
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