 She was also noted for her pictures of children; she used her own children as models for her paintings.One of her most famous paintings was "Palissy the Potter", displayed at the Royal Academy in 1866; it illustrates the incident in which Bernard Palissy accidentally blew up his house while experimenting on ceramic techniques.This and similar works (like "Queen Mary quitting Stirling Castle"; RA 1863 and "Scene from the childhood of Joan of Arc"; RA 1867) made her perhaps the most prominent female history painter of her generation.