Title Women, art and money in late Victorian and Edwardian England : the hustle and the scramble / Maria Quirk

Published New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages) Series Contextualizing art markets Contextualizing art markets. Contents Section One -- Chapter One: Training for the Market -- Chapter Two: Commerce and Family in the Home Studio -- Chapter Three: Single Ladies and Studio Celebrities -- Section Two -- Chapter Four: Academy Politics -- Chapter Five: Members of the Club -- Chapter Six: Making a living through middle-class demand -- Chapter Seven: Portraiture and Patronage -- Chapter Eight: Illustrating Success Summary "Women, Art and Money in England establishes the importance of women artists' commercial dealings to their professional identities and reputations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Grounded in economic, social and art history, the book draws on and synthesises data from a broad range of documentary and archival sources to present a comprehensive history of women artists' professional status and business relationships within the complex and changing art market of late-Victorian England. By providing new insights into the routines and incomes of women artists, and the spaces where they created, exhibited and sold their art, this book challenges established ideas about what women had to do to be considered 'professional' artists. More important than a Royal Academy education or membership to exhibiting societies was a woman's ability to sell her work. This meant that women had strong incentive to paint in saleable, popular and 'middlebrow' genres, which reinforced prejudices towards women's 'naturally' inferior artistic ability - prejudices that continued far into the twentieth century. From shining a light on the difficult to trace pecuniary arrangements of little researched artists like Ethel Mortlock to offering new and direct comparisons between the incomes earned by male and female artists, and the genres, commissions and exhibitions that earned women the most money, Women, Art and Money is a timely contribution to the history of women's working lives that is relevant to a number of scholarly disciplines."--Bloomsbury Publishing Notes Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Queensland, 2015 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Women artists -- England -- Economic conditions Art -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century Art -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- 20th century Art and society -- England -- History -- 19th century Art and society -- England -- History -- 20th century ART / Subjects & Themes / General Art and society Art -- Economic aspects Women artists -- Economic conditions England Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019007562 ISBN 9781501343070 1501343076

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