Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 412 pages of information about Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D..

Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 412 pages of information about Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D..

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GREY, MRS. EDITH F. Member of the Society of Miniaturists, Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colors, Bewick Club, and Northumbrian Art Institute, Newcastle-on-Tyne.  Born at the last-named place, where she also made her studies in the Newcastle School of Art, and later under private masters in London.

Mrs. Grey has exhibited miniatures and pictures in both oils and water-colors at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colors, and the exhibitions at Liverpool, Manchester, and York.  Since 1890 she has continuously exhibited at the Academy of the Royal Institute, London, except in 1895 and 1902.

Mrs. Grey was fortunate in having the first picture she sent to London sold, and has continued to find purchasers for her exhibited works, which are now in many private collections and number about one hundred and fifty.  “Empty,” a child study in oils, 1897, and a water-color, “A Silver Latch,” 1900, are among her important works.

To the Academy Exhibition, 1903, she sent a picture of “Nightfall, Cullercoats,” and a portrait of “Lily, daughter of Mrs. J. B. Firth.”

GUILD, MRS. CADWALLADER. I quote from the Boston Transcript a portion of an article relative to this sculptor, some of whose works were exhibited in Boston in 1903: 

“In spite of the always suspected journalistic laudations of Americans abroad, in spite of the social vogue and intimacy with royalty which these chronicle, the work of Mrs. Guild shows unmistakable talent and such a fresh, free spirit of originality that one can almost accept the alleged dictum of Berlin that Mrs. Guild ’is the greatest genius in sculpture that America has ever had.’

“The list of Mrs. Guild’s works executed abroad include a painting belonging to the very beginning of her career, of still-life in oils, which was accepted and well hung at the Royal Academy in London; but it is in Berlin that she has been especially successful.  To her credit there are:  A bust of her royal highness the Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein; Mr. Gladstone, in marble and bronze; G. F. Watts, in bronze, for the ‘Permanent Manchester Art Exhibition’; Mr. Peter Brotherhood, inventor of a torpedo engine, in marble and bronze, which held the place of honor at the Royal Academy the year of its exhibition; Princess Henry of Prussia, in marble; her highness Princess Helena of Saxe-Altenburg; his excellency the Baron von Rheinbaben, minister of finance; his excellency Dr. Studt, minister of education in art; Prof.  Dr. Henry Thode, of the Heidelberg University; Hans Thoma and Joachim, the violinist; Felix Weingartner; statuette of her royal highness Princess Henry with her little son Prince Henry.”

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GUNTHER-AMBERG, JULIE. Born in Berlin, 1855.  Daughter and pupil of Wilhelm Amberg; later she studied under Gussow.  She painted attractive scenes of domestic life, the setting for these works often representing a landscape characteristic of the shore of the Baltic Sea.  Among these pictures are “Schurr-Meer,” “The Village Coquette,” “Sunday Afternoon,” “At the Garden Gate,” and “Harvest Day in Misdroy.”  In 1886 this artist married Dr. Gunther, of Berlin.

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