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    Ii.—Female Artists. By An Italian.

    have with , pearls been inconsolable . Her Husband for the soon loss died for returning , and _Sofonisfoa 1 to Spain seems in a not vessel to

    , commanded by Qrazio ILoinellini , a Genoese patrician , she was prevailed on during the voyage to accept his hand , and , instead of

    proceeding to Spain , laomellini conducted her straight to Genoa . The Lomellini family still preserve her portrait , by herself , after the

    manner of Raphael , perhaps better done than the one in the gallery Crem at Florence . aet . , _suae under ann which . XX . " is and written the one " Sop in honisba the Imperial Anguisciola Gallery ,

    , of Vienna , with the following inscription , " Sophonisba Anguisciola virgo se ipsam , fecit 1554 . "

    In the Villa Borghese at Eome , there is a portrait by her , of Amilcare her fatherand of her brother . Lord Yarborough is also

    in possession of one , of her pictures , which had always passed for a Titian , ( little to the credit of the connoisseurs , ) until Francis Wey

    deciphered the following inscription on the back ground , " Sophonisba Anguisciola virgo i . . , terisAgoti piaax . . _„ t . MDLI . " Wey

    _, , conjectures that the young nun with dark eyes and pale face , pure soft features animated by an angelic smile , hands of exquisite

    delicacy , holding a prayer book , is Elena , Sofonisba ' s sister and favorite ilwho took the veil in very early years . ( 28 ) Her

    marriage pup of S , . Catherine is in the Pembroke collection at Wilton . Two portraits of herself , done by her own hand , are in the

    possession of Mr . Harcourt and Mr . Stirling , and there is a third at Nuneham . Other pictures of hers are at Burleigh House , Althorp ,

    and in Lord Spencer's collection at Wimbledon . ( 29 ) Various other works bher are mentioned by Baldinucoi , and among them .

    y a portrait of the Infanta Isabella Chiara d' Austria , ( the same who was confided to Sofonisba ' s care in Madrid , ) on the occasion of her

    voyage from Genoa to marry the Archduke Albert . Sofonisba died in 1620 , at the age of ninety , but long before that time she had

    become blind . The conferences on aesthetics and on the practice of artwhich she held in her own palacewere attended to the last , by

    distinguished , painters from every _quarter , , and Van Dyk declared that lie had received more light from this blind woman than from

    all his studies of the greatest masters . By precept and by example she helped to raise art in Genoa from the decay into which it had

    fallen in the middle of the sixteenth century . Receiving her art education from Campiwho ainted in the style of Raphael , and

    later from and Sojari cheerfulness , a follower , of the p of first Corregg and the io , her imp as ictures to and reflect relief of grace

    , ( ( 29 28 ) ) Enumerating Les Anglais ehez the Eux ictures , p . 293 belong . Paris ing , 1854 to Sir . Charles _CooteSWagen

    representing writes : "In an the old dining coup - le room p and I a was young particularl woman y , a attracted picture to assi of by animated a famil to ; the y piece con- ,

    ception and admirable and delicate painter execution , Sofonisb , which a Anguisciola I am inclined . It is erroneousl gn , y assigned rare . desi

    to Allessandro Alloricalled Bronzinothe young female being gnated by the name of Bianca , Capello . " ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 177, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/33/