Edinburgh Ladies Art Club
[3] The Royal Scottish Academy in the nineteenth century offered little support to women.'The Scotsman in October 1889 commented that the RSA had not yet seen fit to offer tuition in art to lady students, so that when female students completed their work at the Board of Manufactures School they had to continue their art education in a somewhat desultory way or set up their own life-drawing classes.The first exhibition held in connection with the Edinburgh Professional Ladies' Art Club to-day in the galleries of Messrs Doig and McKechnie, George Street.The club was founded about a year ago, and the primary object of the Exhibition that by placing their work alongside each other the artists may be able to detect wherein their weakness lies, and a spirit of emulation be encouraged.Some the works display considerable merit, and include landscapes, portraits, and still life.