—partly because I have always said that no woman could paint, and secondly because I thought what the public made such a fuss about mtist be good for nothing But it is Amazon's work this, no doubt of it, and the first fine pre-Raphaelite picture of battle we have had; profoundly interesting, and showing all manner of illustrative and realistic faculty.... The sky is most tenderly painted, and with the truest outline of cloud of all in the Exhibition; and the terrific piece of gallant wrath and ruin on the extreme left, when the cuirassier is catching round the neck of his horse as he falls, and the convulsed fallen horse, seen through the smoke below, is wrought through all the truth of its frantic passion with gradations of color and shade which I have not seen the like of since Turner's death."
The Art Journal, 1877, says: "’Inkerman' is simply a marvellous production when considered as the work of a young woman who was never on the field of battle.... No matter how many figures she brings into the scene, or how few, you may notice character in each figure, each is a superb study."
Her recent picture, "Within Sound of the Guns," shows a company of mounted soldiers on the confines of a river in South Africa.
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Cameron, Katherine. Member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colors; Modern Sketch Club, London; Ladies’ Art Club, Glasgow. Born in Glasgow. Studied at Glasgow School of Art under Pro-
