What a marvellous comment to receive. Thank you so much for leaving it Jacqui. And wow, thank you for recommending my blog to your class participants. I am honoured!
Your course sounds fascinating – all those women, lost to history, but no longer!!

Tena lovely to hear from you and how you were affected by this post.
1774. Wow indeed!

Ahhh Jean-François, you are sooooo right about Mrs. Wilhelmina Cole Holladay! She even wrote a memoir/art historical book about the creation of the National Museum of Women in the Arts: A Museum of Their Own! Thanks for commenting on this amazing woman. How interesting that she won the Legion of Honour in France!

Glad you enjoyed it Jennifer. How interesting about the black silk apron popularity in the early 1700s. Love tidbits of info like that! And I guess our subject is still donning that piece of clothing.
Thanks for pointing out that limited colours were available to pastellists in the past. Shows what can be done with relatively few colours!

Love your reaction to this artist and this painting in particular. I feel the same way about the subject – who is she and what is she thinking and feeling.
And yes, I know what you mean about book swapping Michele! I do put my local public library to good use but sometimes the books are so good I just have to have them in my own library 😀

Thanks Diane. I’m glad you took Frankenthaler as your subject. She certainly was an innovator in the painting world!!

Hi Sandy! Glad you enjoyed the post. And I am assuming when you refer to the format you mean doing this close-up of a single (historical) painting rather than my usual round-up. It’s certainly way less work but I like doing both so may split the time between them 😀

You are so welcome Rosalie! I love hearing that what I blog about is useful and inspirational 🙂 And I certainly agree with you about the portrait!