Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… of her talent. In 1805, John Hoppner, one of Vigée Le Brun’s rivals, published a pamphlet on her as a preface to his Oriental Tales . She found particularly hurtful Hoppner’s accusation that she had transformed her workshop into a …
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