[Illustration: Alinari, Photo. In the Bologna Gallery THE INFANT CHRIST ELISABETTA SIRANI] WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B. C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A. D. BY CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT 1904 PREFATORY NOTE As a means of collecting material for this book I have sent to many artists in Great Britain and in various countries of Europe, as well as in the United States, a circular, asking where their studies were made, what honors they have received, the titles of their principal works, etc. I take this opportunity to thank those who have cordially replied to my questions, many of whom have given me fuller information than I should have presumed to ask; thus assuring correctness in my statements, which newspaper and magazine notices of artists and their works sometimes fail to do. I wish especially to acknowledge the courtesy of those who have given me photographs of their pictures and sculpture, to be used as illustrations. CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. THE INFANT CHRIST _Elisabetta Sirani_ In the Bologna Gallery. By permission of Fratelli Alinari. A PORTRAIT _Elizabeth Gowdy Baker_ A PORTRAIT _Adelaide Cole Chase_ From a Copley print. A CANADIAN INTERIOR _Emma Lampert Cooper_ ANGIOLA _Louise Cox_ From a Copley print. DOROTHY _Lydia Field Emmet_ From a Copley print. JUDITH WITH THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES _Artemisia Gentileschi_ In the Pitti Gallery. By permission of Fratelli Alinari. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD _Berthe Girardet_ THE DEPARTURE OF SUMMER _Louise L. Heustis_ From a Copley print. MINIATURE OF PERSIS BLAIR _Laura Coombs Hills_ CHILD OF THE PEOPLE _Helen Hyde_ MOTHER AND CHILD _Phoebe A. Jenks_ MISS ELLEN TERRY AS "PORTIA" _Louise Jopling Rowe_ ANGELICA KAUFFMAN _Angelica Kauffman_ In the Uffizi Gallery. By permission of Fratelli Alinari. PORTRAIT OF ROSA BONHEUR _Anna E. Klumpke_ A FAMILY OF DOGS _Matilda Lotz_ FRITZ _Clara T. MacChesney_ From a Copley print. SAINT CATHERINE _Mary L. Macomber_ From a Copley print. MONUMENT FOR A TOMB _Ida Matton_ In Cemetery in Gefle, Sweden. DELFT _Blanche McManus Mansfield_ AN INDIAN AFTER THE CHASE _Rhoda Holmes Nichols_ FLOWERS _Helen Searle Pattison_ ST. CHRISTOPHER Engraved by _Caroline A. Powell_ In Doge's Palace, Venice GENEVESE WATCHMAKER _Aimée Rapin_ In the Museum at Neuchâtel. MAY DAY AT WHITELANDS COLLEGE, CHELSEA. _Anna Mary Richards_ FRUIT, FLOWERS, AND INSECTS _Rachel Ruysch_ In the Pitti Gallery. By permission of Fratelli Alinari. A FROG FOUNTAIN _Janet Scudder_