Elizabeth thompson paints what might be her most famous painting, scotland forever. It's a thrilling depiction of a charge of the scots grays at waterloo in 18 15. Scotland forever is never shown at the royal academy, and thompson doesn't even try again to get elected. She can read the writing on the wall. In fact, no woman would be elected to the royal academy until 19 36 - more than half a century later.
In the late 19th century, a painting titled The Roll Call, by a virtually unknown artist, took England by storm. But after that brilliant first effort, the artist all but disappeared. Why? And what does The Roll Call tell us about the fate of those first through the door?
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