The portrait you can see at the far end of this gallery depicts Cynthia, the Moon Goddess from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. It was painted by a woman artist, Maria Cosway, and her model was the woman who commissioned the work of art: Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.
It's a picture I had long wanted to look at in-person and I got my chance last week when I visited Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920 at London's Tate Britain. The entire exhibition is brilliant, offering a rare opportunity to see works by women artists from times when it was extremely difficult for them to be recognised professionally. As it says on the Tate's website:
"From Tudor times to the First World War, artists such as Mary Beale, Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight paved a new artistic path for generations of women. They challenged what it meant to be a working woman of the time by going against society’s expectations – having commercial careers as artists and taking part in public exhibitions."
Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920 is on at Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG, until 13 October 2024. Full price tickets are £20. The catalogue for the exhibition can be viewed on Amazon or bought at the Tate.
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