National Portrait Gallery

PAST EXHIBITION

Victorian Women Historians

February 26, 2009—August 6, 2009

This showcase display highlights Victorian women historians and art historians. It includes a sensitive chalk drawing of Agnes Strickland whose seminal work, Lives of the Queens of England, was one of the most popular history books published in the Victorian period, and rarely seen photographs by Hill and Adamson of art historians Anna Jameson and Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake.

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