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Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England Contextualizing Art Markets This series presents new, original research that reconceives the scope and function of art markets throughout history by examining them in the context of broader institutional practices, knowledge networks, social structures, collecting activities, and creative strategies. In many cases, art market activities have been studied in isolation from broader themes within art history, a trend that has tended to stifle exchange across disciplinary boundaries. Contextualizing Art Markets seeks to foster increased dialogue between art historians, artists, curators, economists, gallerists, and other market professionals by contextualizing art markets around the world within wider art historical discourses and institutional practices. The series has been developed in the belief that the reciprocal relation between art and finance is undergoing a period of change: artists are adopting innovative strategies for the commercial promotion of their work, auction houses are expanding their educational programmes, art fairs are attracting unprecedented audience numbers, museums are becoming global brands, private galleries are showing increasingly ‘curated’ exhibitions, and collectors are establishing new exhibition spaces. As the divide between public and private practices narrows, questions about the social and ethical impact of market activities on the production, collection, and reception of art have become newly pertinent. By combining trends within the broader discipline of art history with investigations of marketplace dynamics, Contextualizing Art Markets explores the imbrication of art and economics as a driving force behind the aesthetic and social development of the art world. We welcome proposals that debate these issues across a range of historical periods and geographies. Series Editor: Kathryn Brown, Loughborough University, UK Editorial Board: Véronique Chagnon-Burke, Christie’s Education, USA Christel H. Force, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA Charlotte Galloway, Australian National University, Australia Mel Jordan, Royal College of Art, UK Alain Quemin, Université Paris-8, France Mark Westgarth, University of Leeds, UK Forthcoming Volumes in the Series: Old Masters Worldwide: Markets, Museums and Movements, edited by Susanna Avery-Quash and Barbara Pezzini Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France (1853–1914), by Elizabeth Emery Pioneers of the Global Art Market: Paris-Based Dealer Networks, 1850–1950, edited by Christel H. Force Collecting Prints, Posters and Ephemera: Perspectives in a Global World, edited by Ruth E. Iskin and Britany Salsbury Corporate Patronage of Art & Architecture in the United States, Late 19th Century to the Present, edited by Monica E. Jovanovich and Melissa Renn Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market: An Avant-Garde Landscape Painter in Nineteenth-Century France, by Simon Kelly Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa: A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows, by Zachary Kingdon iv Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England The Hustle and the Scramble Maria Quirk BLOOMSBURY VISUAL ARTS Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY VISUAL ARTS and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in the United States of America 2019 Copyright © Maria Quirk, 2019 For legal purposes the Acknowledgements on p. xi constitute an extension of this copyright page. Cover image: Self Portrait, 1889 (oil on canvas) Childers, Emily (Milly) (1866-1922) © Leeds Museums and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery) U.K./Bridgeman Images All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Title: Women, art and money in late Victorian and Edwardian England : the hustle and the scramble / Maria Quirk. Description: New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2019. | Series: Contextualizing art markets | Based on the author’s thesis (doctoral)–University of Queensland, 2015. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019007178 (print) | LCCN 2019007562 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501343063 (ePub) | ISBN 9781501343070 (ePDF) | ISBN 9781501343056 (hardback : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Women artists–England–Economic conditions. | Art–Economic aspects–England–History–19th century. | Art–Economic aspects–England–History– 20th century. | Art and society–England–History–19th century. | Art and society– England–History–20th century. Classification: LCC N8354 (ebook) | LCC N8354 .Q57 2019 (print) | DDC 704/.042–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019007178 ISBN: HB: 978-1-5013-4305-6 ePDF: 978-1-5013-4307-0 eBook: 978-1-5013-4306-3 Series: Contextualizing Art Markets Typeset by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. This book is dedicated to my parents, Patricia and Michael Quirk. viii Contents List of Abbreviations x Acknowledgements xi Series Editor’s Introduction xii Introduction: Money, Professionalism and Reputation 1 Part One From Student to Studio 1 Training for the Market 21 2 Commerce and Family in the Home Studio 38 3 Single Ladies and Studio Celebrities 59 Part Two Commerce, Enterprise, Display 4 Academy Politics 75 5 Members of the Club 89 6 Making a Living through Middle-Class Demand 114 7 Portraiture and Patronage 142 8 Illustrating Success 161 Conclusion 191 Appendix 1 196 Appendix 2 204 Select Bibliography 212 Index 224
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