ABSTRACT
By the beginning of the twentieth century and with the advent of the Impressionists, Post Impressionists, Cubists, Fauves, Symbolists, Surrealists, and modernism in all its forms, the art of Victorian England had become either a subject of ridicule or a non-subject altogether. Venerable introductory art history texts such as Gardener’s Art Through the Ages (tenth edition) include Rosa Bonheur as the sole woman artist of the nineteenth century. Only John Everett Millias and Edward Burne-Jones represent English Victorian art as part of the Pre-Raphaelite school, which itself is classified as a type of Realism. With Victorian men given such short shrift in survey texts, it is no wonder that the women became all but forgotten.
