 By 1931, however, Percy Leason, writing a long review in "Table Talk", draws comparison with Rembrandt, Whistler and Corot to say;

However, like her female contemporaries, Beckett faced considerable prejudice from conservative male artists.Meldrum, commenting as late as 1939 on Nora Heyson's receiving the Archibald Prize, expressed his opinion on women's capacity to be great artists; "Men and women are differently constituted.Women are more closely attached to the physical things of life, and to expect them to do some things equally as well as men is sheer lunacy [...] A great artist has to tread a lonely road.