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Originally Posted by Julie Deane
. . . beyond the normal mentor/mentoree relationship...it would mean in a destructive sense . . .
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I think that's cartainly what happened to Rose Bueret (sp?). Thomas Eakins and Maxfield Parrish also seem to have had a deleterious effect on the "sweet young thangs" who became entangled with them.
I suppose it's academic to speculate whether Elizabeth Gardner would have had a stellar career producing work that was new and visually divergent from Bouguereau's - her work is well-nigh indistinguishable from his . . . ?
Nurturing/mentoring, or "smothering" ?