The Other October Revolution
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The other October Revolution – art and the advent of women’s tertiary education in Britain Barbara Bodichon and Helen Blackburn at Girton College, 1869 Lara Nicholls, Assistant Curator, Australian Paintings and Sculpture PhD Candidate Alfred Waterhouse, Architectural drawings of Girton College, Cambridge University (DATE, watercolour on paper, Girton College Archives Barbara Bodichon collecting foliage for her painting in Algiers Barbara Leigh Smith Elizabeth Guinness Self-portrait Helen Blackburn Drawing in pen and ink Emily Mary Osborn (1828 – 1925) Nameless and friendless: The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, London 1857, Royal Academy; Tate Britain, purchased 2009 Emily Mary Osborn Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, London, 1883 - 84 oil on canvas, Girton College, Cambridge, Gift of A.G. Hastings, 1963. Emily Mary Osborn Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, sketch for a portrait of Bodichon, ink on board, Girton College, presented by A Haley & Co., Wakefield, 1949. Whereabouts of the oil painting unknown. Barbara Bodichon Ye Newe Generation Munich, 1850 Painting trip to Europe with Anna Mary Howitt and Jane Benham Howitt writes An Art Student in Munich, the central character of Justina was based on Barbara. Ventnor, Isle of Wight, 1856 Sisters working in our fields, c. 1858 – 60, Algeria Watercolour and bodycolor 28 x 42.5 inches; signed, Watercolour and bodycolor on paper inscribed and dated 1856. Provenance: Christopher From "the villa on the green heights of Mustapha Superieur" which the Wood, London Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1856, no. Bodichons bought on their marriage in 1858. 913; Manchester City Art Gallery, November 1997: 'Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists.’, Delaware Art Museum Barbara Bodichon Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler (1846 – Ireland 1846 1933) Watercolour and body colour with varnish Evicted, 1890 23 x 35 cm Oil on canvas 121 x 184 cm Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin Anna Blunden (1829 – 1915) Emily Mary Osborn (1828 – 1925) The Seamstress or For Only One Short Hour, 1854, based on Nameless and friendless: The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, the poem by Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt, Yale Centre London 1857, Royal Academy; Tate Britain, purchased 2009 for British Art. Girton College Fire Brigade 1878 featuring Hertha Ayrton The mistresses and fellows of Girton College Georges du Maurier from Punch, 8 December 1887 Girton College archive GPCH 10/2/41 Young man in railway carriage offers graduate of Girton College some light reading for the journey and she replies that she has her Pensées by Pascal. Bertha Newcombe 1857 – 1947 Training – Slade School of Fine Art, 1976, member of the New English Art Club from 1888. Studio – Chyne Walk, Chelsea First women's suffrage petition hidden under an apple stall London 1910 oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right London School of Economics Emily Mary Osborn William Holman Hunt The governess The awakening conscience London 1860 London 1853 Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund Tate Britain William Quiller Orchardson (1832 – 1910) Le marriage de convenance London 1883 Purchased 1926, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Arthur Hacker The Cloister or the world Vae Victis! The Sack of Morrocco by the Almohades, Woe to the Vanquished London 1896; oil on canvas; Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, London 1890; oil on canvas; Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery (formerly collection Bradford of George McCulloch, gift of his widow Mrs J Coutts Michie) Annie Louisa Swynnerton (first woman to be Milly Childers (1866 – 1922) Margaret Thomas (1842 – 1929; arrived Australia elected Associate of the Royal Academy in 1922 Self-portrait 1889 1852) Millicent Fawcett, G.B.E., LL.D Leeds Art Gallery, Gift of Miss E. Deane, 1937 The artist Tate, Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey North Hertfordshire Museum Bequest 1930 Helena Arsene Darmesteter (1854 – 1923) Henrietta Rae (1859 - 1928 ) Hertha Ayrton (1854 – 1923) Miss Nightingale at Scutari, 1854 (The lady with the Girton College, Cambridge lamp), commissioned by the publishers Casell & Co for reproduction chromolithograph in their Yueltide Christmas annual – whereabouts of the original unknown [Emily Davies Court] Girton College, University of Cambridge. c. 1890-1900. Photochrome print published by the Detroit Publishing Company, 1905 [Source: Library of Congress LC-DIG-ppmsc-08082v.]. Emily Mary Osborn Rudolf Lehmann M. Hawkins (after William Blake Richmond) Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (dates) Emily Davies, 1888 Henrietta Maria, Lady Stanley of Alderley, oil on canvas, Girton College, Cambridge Commissioned and gift from students, Girton 1880 College Cambridge Gift from the sitter's son, E. Lyulph Stanley, Girton College Cambridge Gillian Wearing Elizabeth Guinness Statue of Millicent Fawcett Portrait of Helen Blackburn London, Parliament Square, 2018 Elizabeth Sarah Guinness (1850 – 1934) Portrait of Caroline Ashurst Biggs (top); and Lydia Becker (bottom) Mahogany bookcase designed by Helen Blackburn and given to Girton College, Cambridge. Women’s Industries, Bristol 1885 Women’s Pavilion, World’s Columbian Fair, Chicago 1893 Example work included in the collection of Portraits of Eminent British Women Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke, who retired to her estate in Cambridgeshire and founded Pembroke College upon the death of her husband Pen and ink drawing by Miss Guinness, after the picture in the College; A drawing from the book of hours showing her giving a golden book to the Abbey of St Alban’s Victorian Era Exhibition, Earl’s Court London, 1887 35, 36, 37 19 Overall map of Exhibition 19. General Fine Art Division 35 – 37. Women’s Work Section (Fine Art Sub-Division) Colonial legacies – Dunedin, New Zealand Caroline Freeman, BA 1885 – First woman to enrol at the University of Otago (1878) and Otago’s first woman graduate, established Girton College, Dunedin for girls in 1886, which she began with four students before moving to more salubrious environs of a tuck pointed gabled brick residence on Dowling Street. She then branched out to Christchurch where she opened a second Girton College in Latimer Square. The Dunedin establishment merged with Braemar and is now the current-day Columba College..