Girl Reading - Art that Inspired the Book

There is A Note at the back of Girl Reading which gives details of various portraits that inspired it. Curious readers might like to follow the external links where some of these images are available. I promise you though, the art in real life is much better.

• Simone Martini, Annunciation, 1333.
• Pieter Janssens Elinga, Woman Reading, 1668–70.
• Angelica Kauffman, Portrait of a Lady, circa 1775.
• Horatio Nelson King, Giulia Grisi, 1860s.
• Julia Margaret Cameron, Portrait of a Sybil (Mary Emily (‘May’) Prinsep), 1870.
• Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell (née Stephen), circa 1916–17.
• Heinrich Vogeler, Martha Vogeler, circa 1905.
• Théodore Roussel, The Reading Girl, 1886-87.
• Flickr.com, Women and Girls Reading, since 2007.
• William Wetmore Story, The Libyan Sibyl, 1860-61.
• Kimbei Kusakabe, Woman Writing with Brush, 1890s.
• Correggio’s Mary Magdalene was lost during the Second World War.
  It was much emulated, for example, Cristofano Allori, Penitent Mary Magdalene, circa 1600.

Michelangelo LibyanSibyl – SistineChapel