SALTZMAN/OLD MASTERS; NEW WORLD

"The Old Masters and Their Pictures, For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art" by Sarah Tytler Henrietta Keddie was a prolific Scottish novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Sarah Tytler. Her domestic realism became popular with women. This book, however, differs from her novels. An educational text, this book introduced children to the visual arts. Starting with early Italian artists like Giotto and moving all the way through history to the German, Flemish, and Dutch artists in the 1700s.

Henrietta Keddie (1827-1914), who wrote under the pseudonym Sarah Tytler was a Scottish author. She grew up in Elie on the Fife coast and when she was sixteen she went to Edinburgh to finish her education. She was encouraged by the essayist John Brown (1810-82) to contribute pieces to Blackwood's Magazine. After the death of her father she joined with her sisters to run a small private school in Cupar (1848-70). Her works include: Citoyenne Jacqueline (1866), The Huguenot Family in the English Village (1868), What She Came Through (1877), The Old Masters and Their Pictures (1880), Girlhood and Womanhood: The Story of Some Fortunes and Misfortunes (1883), Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen (in two volumes) (1885), A Houseful of Girls (1889), A Lonely Lassie (1893), Mermaidens (1895), The American Cousins (1897), A Loyal Little Maid (1900), Queen Charlotte's Maidens (1901), In Clarissa's Day (1903) and Innocent Masqueraders (1907).