![]() In winter 1870-71, she settled for a month in the Eternal City with her sibling and their mutual friend Alice Bartlett, not far from the atelier of Thomas Couture’s student, the landscape painter Frederic Crowninshield, where, at her mentors’ William Rimmer and William Hunt suggestion, May could sketch from life (Stern 205). 3 Daniel Shealy, interviewed by Jamie Burgess and Jill Fuller in their podcast “Let Genius Burn,” Sea (.)ġ The impending war and her sister May’s desire to improve her art skills in the safe, hilly area usually chosen by the American travelers for its distance from the malarial river prompted a long stop in Rome on Louisa May Alcott’s second European tour. ![]() ![]() 2 Louisa May’s Roman sketch, first pointed out to me by the librarian of the Centro Studi Americani A (.).1 May Alcott’s mentor, William Morris Hunt, painted, in the Barbizon style of Jean-François Millet, s (.).
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