E-text prepared by Delphine Lettau, Matthew Wheaton, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 39000-h.htm or 39000-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39000/pg39000-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39000/39000-h.zip) The Art and Life Library Edited by WALTER SHAW SPARROW. VOLUME I. The British Home of To-day A BOOK OF MODERN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND THE APPLIED ARTS. (_Published June, 1904. Out of Print_). VOLUME II. The Gospels in Art THE LIFE OF CHRIST BY GREAT PAINTERS FROM FRA ANGELICO TO HOLMAN HUNT. (_Published November, 1904_). VOLUME III. Women Painters of the World FROM THE TIME OF CATERINA VIGRI (1413-1463) TO ROSA BONHEUR AND THE PRESENT DAY. DEDICATED TO HER MAJESTY QUEEN ALEXANDRA. (Published March, 1905). Hodder & Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row, London. [Illustration: BRITISH SCHOOL, 1901 "JOY AND THE LABOURER." REPRODUCED FROM THE ORIGINAL PICTURE IN THE COLLECTION OF W. A. CADBURY, ESQ. Mrs. Mary Young Hunter, Painter] Women Painters of the World _from the time of Caterina Vigri 1413-1463 to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day_ _Edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow_ The Art and Life Library H&S 1905 Hodder & Stoughton 27 Paternoster Row-London DEDICATED BY GRACIOVS PERMISSION TO HER MAJESTY QVEEN ALEXANDRA IN THIS YEAR OF OVR LORD ONE THOVSAND NINE HVNDRED & FIVE Printed by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., Ltd. The Country Press, Bradford. [Illustration: BRITISH SCHOOL, 1874 "MISSED!" REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION OF CHARLES CHESTON, ESQ., FROM: THE ORIGINAL WATER-COLOUR DATED 1874, THE YEAR IN WHICH THE PAINTER'S FAMOUS "ROLL-CALL" WAS PURCHASED BY QUEEN VICTORIA AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY. Lady Elizabeth Butler, Painter] PREFACE What is genius? Is it not both masculine and feminine? Are not some of its qualities instinct with manhood, while others delight us with the most winning graces of a perfect womanhood? Does not genius make its appeal as a single creative agent with a two-fold sex?