While the art attacks were controversial, it was just one of the ways that women during the Victorian era sought ... By ruining portraits and exhibitions, the women sent a powerful message about ...

The portrait seems to play with the Victorian assumption that unconventional women were somehow “masculine ... They supported their only child’s interest in art, sending her to Paris ...

In 1945, Joy Hester painted Pauline McCarthy, a portrait of her close ... me in the lecture room at the Victorian College of the Arts, where I taught art history. The harsh light from the slide ...

Conservators in London, England used infrared and X-ray imaging to reveal a never-before-seen portrait of a woman beneath a popular painting by renowned artist Pablo Picasso. The Courtauld ...