Talk:Rosina Ferrara

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While looking for sources for the article, I could not find a reliable source for:

• Ferrara was first discovered by French artist Edward Vaux, and became his model.
• She became a mistress to the Belgian artist Alfred Stevens sometime in the mid-1880s,
• and was a friend to American expatriate artist Charles C. Coleman, who specialized in painting Mediterranean landscapes similar to those painted by Sargent and other American, British, and French painters.
• Her niece, Maria Primavera was adopted by Ferrara and George Randolph Barse shortly after her sister's death. Maria married Pompeius Michael Bernardo.
• Ferrara gave birth to Maria Carlotta in 1883. The father of her child is not known, but some say that she was a daughter of a male member of a royal family. It is unclear which member of the royal houses of Europe visited Capri during that time period. It could have been one of the members of the House of Bourbon, which ruled Naples during most of the 18th century.
• Capri Girl by Jean Benner (1880s) - of Rosina Ferrara
• Works of Rosina included in Sargent and Italy and Great Expectations exhibitions

–CaroleHenson (talk) 18:25, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

I feel it is important to point out that the description of Rosina as "tawny-skinned, panther-eyed, elf-like Rosina, wildest and lithest of all the savage creatures on the savage isle of Capri" does not repeat the words of the American painter Charles Sprague Pearce, as this article states, but merely the words of an art critic reviewing Pearce's painting of Rosina at the Paris Salon in 1882. I feel this should be corrected because as the author phrases it would leave the reader that Pearce held such a jingoistic perception of southern Italians. The original quote is to be found in “American Art in the Paris Salon," in The Art Amateur, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Aug., 1882), p. 46".

- George Field (fadedbetta@gmail.com) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.140.67 (talk) 01:07, 21 July 2017 (UTC)