Level Playing Field?

[Michael Fournier]

Originally Posted by Richard Bingham

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" ?

Lets not for get Camille Claudel who was dismissed as Rodin's Mistress yet she may even have completed much of Rodin's own work never mind not getting Any recognition of her own.