John Vanderlyn

The Death of Jane McCrea

1804

*pure woman being violated by savage, low-cut dress. came from revolutionary family + tried to escape to Canada to be with her loyalist lover: murdered by Native Americans. Heroic figure representing American independence under threat OR warning to women everywhere that they should not assert independence/vulnerability of colonial/revolutionary American women

Jose Maria Velasco

Valley of Mexico

1875

Jose Maria Velasco

View of the Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel

1877

John Verelst

Hendrick of the Wolf Clan, 'One of Four Indian Kings'

1704

Virgin Mary of the Cerro Rico of Potosi

18th century

Benjamin West

Penn's Treaty with the Indians

c. 1771

William Merritt Chase

Hide and Seek

1888

James Abott McNeil Whistler

Portrait in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist's Mother

(1871)

*reaction against painting as science

espoused art for art's sake

John Singer Sargent

Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

1882

*development from childhood to feminity through the daughters

John Singer Sargent

In the Luxembourg Gardens

1879