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    208 THE SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS.

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    _ ^ . The Annual Exhibition Of This Soci...

    paint with equal delicacy just such scenes de la vie prive ' e , while Rosa Bonheur chooses bulls and horses .

    Our space fails us , and we can only mention a few pictures marked in our catalogue . Miss Fox sends a large oil portrait of her father ? the

    member for Oldham , whose noble sense of justice to women has been marked at every stage of his public and parliamentary career ,

    Elizabeth and whose _^ likeness Murray sends is therefore a number very of fitly bri p g laced ht sketches in this room in Ital . y Mrs and .

    Africa . They are very attractive , and are nearly all sold ; but , marked as they are by genuine poetical feeling , and by unusual

    facility of execution , we cannot but regret her anatomy ; why should a painter who inherits , and who possesses so many natural artistic

    gifts , draw distorted claws instead of human hands , and allow two eyes in the same face to look in different directions ?

    Mrs . Robertson Blaine has a number of clear , forcible oil sketches , in Africa . Mrs . E . M . Ward some lovely scenes in the nursery , and

    one fat puffing chicken , conceived with much humour . We love to expression see that genuine in this sympath * Good Meal y with . A the stud animal y from creation nature , , called which ' Dart finds

    moor Granite , ' will detain any lover of delicate accuracy : against it we find the name of Eliza Mills . * The Daguerreotype , * by Anna

    E . Blunden , is full of refined sentiment , and is not sentimental . Mrs . Robinson has two heads of Othello and Desdemona , which attract

    the eye instantly by their expression , and by the good work which has been put into them ; also a very buxom « Ballad Singer , of

    Connemara . ' To anybody who . can appreciate fun we recommend the little

    * Scenes from the Life of a Female Artist , ' by Miss F . A . Caxton . They are a fit commentary on the whole exhibition ; there is the

    " ladies' class , " the studio , the woodland wide-awake , all the aspirations , difficulties , disappointments , which lead in time to successes .

    The little dog barks with all the hidden meaning of a dog in a fairy tale ; the plaster head on the shelf winks with a certain dry

    amusement at its mistress , who is represented as painting a picture of the ascent to the Temple of Fame : the picture is rejectedand

    , the disconsolate young painter is seen sitting in comical despair , gazing at an enormous R , chalked on the back . Do not grieve

    too much , O rejected artist ! the great Etty himself tried for nine successive years before he gained an entrance into Somerset Plouse .

    Remember the magnificent words of a Transatlantic poet—< c Endurance is the crowning quality ,

    And patience all the passion of great hearts . "

    208 The Society Of Female Artists.

    208 THE SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 208, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/64/