Susan MacDowell Eakins, Portrait of Thomas Eakins, c. 1899

Became Suzan Eakins

Husband was an artist

First winner of the Mary Smith Prize

After her marriage she did not paint as much

Eakins was fired because he was too showy

Alice Barber Stephens, The Female Life Class, 1879

Student at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women

Studied under Thomas Eakins

Her work regularly appeared in magazines

Marie Bashkirtseff, In the Studio, 1881

Came from a wealthy Russian family

Given a child to draw

The studio is super crowded

Complained about the restricted life she lived

      She wants to have freedom

Says she can’t become an artist because she is a woman

She would only be half free even if she was ugly

Strong figure painter

She was accused of getting help from her teacher

Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau, The Shepherd David Triumphant, c. 1895

She was an American expatriate who died in Paris where she had lived most of her life

Like Rosa Bonheur

Elizabeth Nourse, In the Church at Volendam, 1892

Children at church some sleeping

Peasants were often the models
Nourse travelled extensively around Europe, Russia, and North Africa painting the people she met

Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson, The Bacidae, 1883

From Philadelphia

Shows two priestesses

Sacrificing a chicken 
Leading American women artists in Paris in 1880's

Ella Ferris Pell, Salome, 1890