Berthe Girardet_

THE DEPARTURE OF SUMMER _Louise L. Heustis_
From a Copley print.

MINIATURE OF PERSIS BLAIR _Laura Coombs Hills_

CHILD OF THE PEOPLE _Helen Hyde_

MOTHER AND CHILD _Phoebe A. Jenks_

MISS ELLEN TERRY AS "PORTIA" _Louise Jopling Rowe_

ANGELICA KAUFFMAN _Angelica Kauffman_
In the Uffizi Gallery. By permission of Fratelli Alinari.

PORTRAIT OF ROSA BONHEUR _Anna E. Klumpke_

A FAMILY OF DOGS _Matilda Lotz_

FRITZ _Clara T. MacChesney_
From a Copley print.

SAINT CATHERINE _Mary L. Macomber_
From a Copley print.

MONUMENT FOR A TOMB _Ida Matton_
In Cemetery in Gefle, Sweden.

DELFT _Blanche McManus Mansfield_

AN INDIAN AFTER THE CHASE _Rhoda Holmes Nichols_

FLOWERS _Helen Searle Pattison_

ST. CHRISTOPHER Engraved by _Caroline A. Powell_
In Doge's Palace, Venice

GENEVESE WATCHMAKER _Aimee Rapin_
In the Museum at Neuchatel.

MAY DAY AT WHITELANDS COLLEGE, CHELSEA. _Anna Mary Richards_

FRUIT, FLOWERS, AND INSECTS _Rachel Ruysch_
In the Pitti Gallery. By permission of Fratelli Alinari.

A FROG FOUNTAIN _Janet Scudder_

A FRENCH PRINCE _Marie Vigee Le Brun_

LA VIERGE AU ROSIER _Sadie Waters_
By courtesy of Braun, Clement et Cie.

SONG OF AGES _Ethel Wright_
From a Copley print.

STATUE OF DANIEL BOONE _Enid Yandell_
Made for St. Louis Exposition.

INTRODUCTION

In studying the subject of this book I have found the names of more than
a thousand women whose attainments in the Fine Arts--in various countries
and at different periods of time before the middle of the nineteenth
century--entitle them to honorable mention as artists, and I doubt not
that an exhaustive search would largely increase this number. The stories
of many of these women have been written with more or less detail, while
of others we know little more than their names and the titles of a few of
their works; but even our scanty knowledge of them is of value.

Of the army of women artists of the last century it is not yet possible
to speak with judgment and justice, although many have executed works of
which all women may be proud.

We have so