CHAPTER XVI.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

More vigorous Growth of the Branches selected for female Enterprise.--Progress accelerated toward the Close of last Century.--Still more remarkable within the last fifty Years.--Great Number of Women active in Art.--Better intellectual Cultivation and growing Taste.--Increased Freedom of Woman.--Present Prospect fair.--Growing Sense of the Importance of Female Education.--Women earning an Independence.--The Stream shallows as it widens.--Few Instances of pre-eminent Ability.--Fuller Scope of the Influence of the French Masters in the nineteenth Century.--David, the Republican Painter.--His female Pupils.--Angélique Mongez.--Madame Davin and others.--Disciples of Greuze.--Female Scholars of Regnault.--Pupils of the Disciples of David.--Pupils of Fleury and Cogniet.--Madame Chaudet.--Kinds of Painting in Vogue.--The Princess Marie d’Orleans.--Her Statue of the Maid of Orleans.--Her last Work.--Promise of Greatness.--Sculpture by Madame de Lamartine.--“Paris is France.”--Painting on Porcelain.--Madame Jacotot and others.--Condition of Art in Germany.--Carstens.--Women Artists.--Maria Ellenrieder.--Louise Seidler.--Baroness von Freiberg.--Madame von Schroeter.--Female Artists of the Düsseldorf School.--The greatest Number in Berlin.--Rich Bloom of Female Talent in Vienna and Dresden.--Changes in Italy.--Prospect not fair in Spain and Scandinavia.--In England, Sculpture and Painting successfully cultivated.--Fanny Corbeaux.--Superior in Biblical Scholarship.--The Netherlands in this Century.--Encouragement for Women to persevere.--Dr. Guhl’s Opinion.--History the Teacher of the Present. 233