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 | | Very kind in telling me what it wanted', she wrote ingenuously in March 1854.The work in hand was the female head of Elgiva (ill.1), which Mrs Boyce, Wells and George urged her to send in to the Academy. |
 | | The painting was praised privately by Ford Madox Brown and publicly by Ruskin, securing it wide notice.(20) Perhaps this success comforted Mrs Boyce, for September saw Joanna in Paris, with her mother and brother Bob, to arrange a term of study. |
 | | He had bought her first success, Elgiva and, of her RA exhibits that year, had optioned La Veneziana before the show opened. |
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