19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century is proud to announce that the spring 2019 issue is now live at https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk. ‘Old Masters, Modern Women’ is the result of collaboration between Birkbeck, University of London and the National Gallery, London and is co-edited by Maria Alambritis, Susanna Avery-Quash, and Hilary Fraser. One of 19’s largest issues, it brings to new prominence the nineteenth-century women who looked at art, and thought and wrote about it.
This issue also inaugurates a new section, 19 Live, edited by Victoria Mills, dedicated to discussing recent exhibitions, events, and performances with a nineteenth-century focus https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/
Table of Contents
Old Masters, Modern Women
Preface
Gabriele Finaldi
Introduction
Maria Alambritis, Susanna Avery-Quash, and Hilary Fraser
Articles
Isabelle Baudino
‘Nothing seems to have escaped her’: British Women Travellers as Art Critics and Connoisseurs (1775–1825)
Caroline Palmer
‘A revolution in art’: Maria Callcott on Poussin, Painting, and the Primitives
Susanna Avery-Quash
Illuminating the Old Masters and Enlightening the British Public: Anna Jameson and the Contribution of British Women to Empirical Art History in the 1840s
Susanna Avery-Quash
Postscript to ‘Illuminating the Old Masters and Enlightening the British Public’
Zahira Véliz Bomford
Navigating Networks in the Victorian Age: Mary Philadelphia Merrifield’s Writing on the Arts
Julie Sheldon
Lady Eastlake and the Characteristics of the Old Masters
Patricia Rubin
George Eliot, Lady Eastlake, and the Humbug of Old Masters
Maria Alambritis
‘Such a pleasant little sketch […] of this irritable artist’: Julia Cartwright and the Reception of Andrea Mantegna in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain
Hilary Fraser
Writing Cosmopolis: The Cosmopolitan Aesthetics of Emilia Dilke and Vernon Lee
Ilaria Della Monica
Mary Berenson and The Guide to the Italian Pictures at Hampton Court
Jonathan K. Nelson
An Unpublished Essay by Mary Berenson, ‘Botticelli and his Critics’ (1894–95)
Tiffany L. Johnston
Maud Cruttwell and the Berensons: ‘A preliminary canter to an independent career’
Francesco Ventrella
Writing Under Pressure: Maud Cruttwell and the Old Master Monograph
Imogen Tedbury
Collaboration and Correction: Re-examining the Writings of Lucy Olcott Perkins, ‘a lady resident in Siena’
Meaghan Clarke
Women in the Galleries: New Angles on Old Masters in the Late Nineteenth Century
Lene Østermark-Johansen
‘This will be a popular picture’: Giovanni Battista Moroni’s Tailor and the Female Gaze
Biographical Section
Edited by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Bibliography
Edited by Maria Alambritis
19 Live
Herb Sussman
Reflections on 19 Live
Susanna Avery-Quash, Letizia Treves, and Francesca Whitlum-Cooper
[In]Visible: Paintings by Women Artists in the National Gallery, London: An Interview with Letizia Treves and Francesca Whitlum-Cooper
Emma Merkling
Review of ‘Annie Swynnerton: Painting Light and Hope’, Manchester Art Gallery
Maria Alambritis
Review of ‘Christiana Herringham: Artist, Campaigner, Collector’, Royal Holloway, Emily Wilding Davison Building
Susanna Avery-Quash and Emma O’Toole
‘[In]Visible: Irish Women Artists from the Archives’: An Interview with Emma O’Toole