HORMUTH-KOLLMORGEN, MARGARETHE. Born at Heidelberg, 1858.  Pupil of Ferdinand Keller at Carlsruhe.  Married the artist Kollmorgen, 1882.  This painter of flowers and still-life has also devoted herself to decorative work, mural designs, fire-screens, etc., in which she has been successful.  Her coloring is admirable and her execution careful and firm.

HOSMER, HARRIET G. Born in Watertown, Massachusetts, 1830.  Pupil in Boston of Stevenson, who taught her to model; pupil of her father, a physician, in anatomy, taking a supplementary course at the St. Louis Medical School.

Since 1852 she has resided in Rome, where she was a pupil of Gibson.  Two heads, “Daphne” and “Medusa,” executed soon after she went to Rome, were praised by critics of authority.  “Will-o’-the-Wisp,” “Puck,” “Sleeping Faun,” “Waking Faun,” and “Zenobia in Chains” followed each other rapidly.

Miss Hosmer made a portrait statue of “Maria Sophia, Queen of the Sicilies,” and a monument to an English lady to be placed in a church in Rome.  Her “Beatrice Cenci” has been much admired; it is in the Public Library at St. Louis, and her statue of Thomas H. Benton is in a square of the same city.

For Lady Ashburton Miss Hosmer made her Triton and Mermaid Fountains, and a Siren Fountain for Lady Marian Alford.

HOUSTON, CAROLINE A.

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HOUSTON, FRANCES C. Bronze medal at Atlanta Exposition; honorable mention at Paris Exposition, 1900.  Member of the Water-Color Club, Boston, and of the Society of Arts and Crafts.  Born in Hudson, Michigan, 1851.  Studied in Julian Academy under Lefebvre and Boulanger.

A portrait painter whose pictures are in private hands.  They have been exhibited in Paris, London, Naples, New York, Philadelphia, and Boston.

Mrs. Houston writes me:  “I have not painted many pictures of late years, but always something for exhibition every year.”  She first exhibited at Paris Salon in 1889, in London Academy in 1890, and annually sends her portraits to the Boston, New York, and Philadelphia Exhibitions.

HOXIE, VINNIE REAM. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, 1847.  This sculptor was but fifteen years old when she was commissioned to make a life-size statue of Abraham Lincoln, who sat for his bust; her completed statue of him is in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.  Congress then gave her the commission for the heroic statue of Admiral Farragut, now in Farragut Square, Washington.  These are the only two statues that the United States Government has ordered of a woman.

This artist has executed ideal statues and several bust portraits of distinguished men.  Of these the bust of Ezra Cornell is at Cornell University; that of Mayor Powell in the City Hall of Brooklyn, etc.

HUDSON, GRACE. Gold medal at Hopkins Institute, San Francisco; silver medal at Preliminary World’s Fair Exhibition of Pacific States; and medals and honorable mention at several California State exhibitions.  Born in Potter Valley, California.  Studied at Hopkins Art Institute, San Francisco, under Virgil Williams and Oscar Kunath.