Caroline Chapman worked as a freelance picture researcher for many of the principal UK publishers before becoming an editor and an author. Her publications include Russel of the Times, Elizabeth and Georgiana: the Duke of Devonshire and his Two Duchesses, John and Joséphine: The Creation of the Bowes Museum and Eighteenth-Century Women Artists: Their Trials, Tribulations & Triumphs.

"Many of the artists featured in this book have been forgotten or consistently ignored by museums, galleries and art historians. After enduring centuries of social restrictions and taboos (for example, young women were not allowed to visit an art museum unchaperoned), by the 1870s women artists were flocking to Paris to be tutored in private art schools. Their new-found confidence saw them tackling a wide range of subjects and contributing to the century's dramatic developments in art styles."

Caroline Chapman worked as a freelance picture researcher for many of the principal UK publishers before becoming an editor and an author. Her publications include Russel of the Times, Elizabeth and Georgiana: the Duke of Devonshire and his Two Duchesses, John and Joséphine: The Creation of the Bowes Museum and Eighteenth-Century Women Artists: Their Trials, Tribulations & Triumphs.

"Many of the artists featured in this book have been forgotten or consistently ignored by museums, galleries and art historians. After enduring centuries of social restrictions and taboos (for example, young women were not allowed to visit an art museum unchaperoned), by the 1870s women artists were flocking to Paris to be tutored in private art schools. Their new-found confidence saw them tackling a wide range of subjects and contributing to the century's dramatic developments in art styles."

Caroline Chapman worked as a freelance picture researcher for many of the principal UK publishers before becoming an editor and an author. Her publications include Russel of the Times, Elizabeth and Georgiana: the Duke of Devonshire and his Two Duchesses, John and Joséphine: The Creation of the Bowes Museum and Eighteenth-Century Women Artists: Their Trials, Tribulations & Triumphs.

"Many of the artists featured in this book have been forgotten or consistently ignored by museums, galleries and art historians. After enduring centuries of social restrictions and taboos (for example, young women were not allowed to visit an art museum unchaperoned), by the 1870s women artists were flocking to Paris to be tutored in private art schools. Their new-found confidence saw them tackling a wide range of subjects and contributing to the century's dramatic developments in art styles."