GUYON, MAXIMILIENNE. Medal of third class, Paris salon, 1888; honorable mention and medal of third class at Exposition Universelle, 1889; travelling purse, 1894—­first woman to whom the purse was given; bronze medal, Paris Exposition, 1900; gold medal at Exposition of Black and White, Paris; medal in silver-gilt at Amiens.  Mme. Guyon is hors concours at Lyons, Versailles, Rouen, etc.  Member of the Societe des Artistes Francais, Societe des Aquarellistes Francais, and of the Societe des Prix du Salon et Boursiers de Voyage.  Born at Paris.  Pupil of the Julian Academy under Robert-Fleury, Jules Lefebvre, and Gustave Boulanger.

Mme. Guyon is a successful portrait painter, and her works are numerous.  Among her pictures of another sort are the “Violinist” and “The River.”  In the Salon des Artistes Francais, 1902, she exhibited two portraits.  In 1903 she exhibited “Mending of the Fish Nets, a scene in Brittany,” and “A Study.”  The net-menders are three peasant women, seated on the shore, with a large net thrown across their laps, all looking down and working busily.  They wear the white Breton caps, and but for these—­in the reproduction that I have—­it seems a gloomy picture; but one cannot judge of color from the black and white.  The net is well done, as are the hands, and the whole work is true to the character of such a scene in the country of these hard-working women.

Mme. Guyon is much esteemed as a teacher.  She has been an instructor and adviser to the Princess Mathilde, and has had many young ladies in her classes.

In her portraits she succeeds in revealing the individual characteristics of her subjects and bringing out that which is sometimes a revelation to themselves in a pronounced manner.  Is not this the key to the charm of her works?

HAANEN, ELIZABETH ALIDA—­MME. KIERS. Member of the Academy of Amsterdam, 1838.  Born in Utrecht. 1809-1845.  Pupil of her brother, Georg G. van Haanen.  The genre pictures by this artist are admirable.  “A Dutch Peasant Woman” and “The Midday Prayer of an Aged Couple” are excellent examples of her art and have been made familiar through reproductions.

HALE, ELLEN DAY. Medal at exhibition of Mechanics’ Charitable Association.  Born in Worcester, Massachusetts.  Pupil of William M. Hart and of Dr. Rimmer, in Boston, and of the Julian Academy, Paris.

Her principal works are decorative.  The “Nativity” is in the South Congregational Church, Boston; “Military Music,” decorative, is in Philadelphia.  She also paints figure subjects.

HALLOWELL, MAY. See Loud.

HALSE, EMMELINE. This artist, when in the Royal Academy Schools, was awarded two silver medals and a prize of L30.  Her works have been accepted at the Academy Exhibitions since 1888, and occasionally she has sent them to the Paris Salons.  Born in London.  Studied under Sir Frederick Leighton, at Academy Schools, and in Paris under M. Bogino.