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Women painting Shakespeare in the time of Jane Austen and Queen Victoria
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Georgianna Ziegler
During the late 18th and early 19th century, professional women artists in England were becoming more prominent and turning to Shakespeare for material.
The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery gets a second life
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Esther French
A late eighteenth-century Shakespeare art museum is experiencing a second life as a detailed online re-creation, the brainchild of University of Texas English professor Janine Barchas. John Boydell, a British publisher, commissioned depictions of Shakespeare scenes from well-known artists of the day: Joshua…
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