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Art Is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur
by Catherine Hewitt.
Icon, 483 pp., £20, February,978 1 78578 621 1 Show More
by Catherine Hewitt.
Icon, 483 pp., £20, February,
“... understand why any female artist would settle for a lesser realm. As her latest biographer, Catherine Hewitt, writes: ‘Rosa never called for equality; she ensured that her work earned her that right.’Where did this sense of exceptional vocation come from? Most historians have stressed the influence exercised by her father, the portraitist ... ”