woman-painters

Updated: August 17, 2026

Then I shall not have lived in vain." It was long before Michael Vanbrugh could thoroughly reconcile himself to the idea of a girl's becoming a painter. But by degrees he learned to view his young pupil as a pupil, and never thought of her sex at all. Under his guidance, Olive passed from the mere prettiness of most woman-painters to the grandeur of true Art.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Olive: A Novel