A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830

The first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary era

“Exhaustive, groundbreaking research. . . . [A] beautifully produced book.”—Jacqueline Riding, Art Newspaper, “Top Art Books of 2022”

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, hundreds of women in London and Paris became professional artists, exhibiting and selling their work in unprecedented numbers. Many rose to the top of their nations’ artistic spheres and ea...