The Victorians saw the world changing. New technologies changed how we made and bought goods and Victorian era paintings show our tastes changing too.

The portrait seems to play with the Victorian assumption that unconventional ... They supported their only child’s interest in art, sending her to Paris to study painting. Returning to ...

Half-Length Portrait of a Peasant ... unsentimental depictions of rural people held little appeal to art buyers at the end of the Victorian era. Indeed, during her life Modersohn-Becker, whose ...