1. Her rapid rise from sweatshop worker to society portraitist is miraculous, not to say incredible.

2. In a Swiss publication, published between 1782 and 1786, he was described as a “portraitist à la mode”.

3. John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) was a master portraitist and painter of historical scenes, his works are considered Aristocratically elegant

4. Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942) was an American society portraitist, whose subjects included First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau.

5. And so the portraits included in Bustes de Femmes certainly allow for a brief but edifying trip inside the minds of some of the greatest portraitists of the last century or so