INGLIS, HESTER. This artist lived in the last half of the sixteenth and in the early decades of the seventeenth century.  In the Library of Christ Church College, Oxford, there is an example of the Psalms, in French, written and decorated by her, which formerly belonged to Queen Elizabeth.  In the Royal Library of the British Museum there is also a “Book of Emblems” from her hand.

ITASSE, JEANNE. Honorable mention, Paris Salon, 1888, and the purse of the city of Paris; at Paris Exposition, honorable mention, 1889; travelling purse, 1891; medal at Chicago Exposition, 1893; medal third class, Salon, 1896; medal second class, 1899; silver medal, Paris Exposition, 1900.  Member of Societe des Artistes Francais, Societe Libre, Societe des prix du Salon et boursiers de voyage.  Born in Paris.  Pupil of her father.

Several works of this sculptor have been purchased by the Government and are in the Bureaux of Ministers or in provincial museums.  A “Bacchante” is in the Museum at Agen; a portrait bust in the Museum of Alger.  At the Salon of 1902 Mlle Itasse exhibited a “Madonna”; in 1903, a portrait of M, W.

Mlle Itasse knows her art thoroughly.  When still a child, at the age when little girls play with dolls, she was in her father’s atelier, working in clay with an irresistible fondness for this occupation, and without relaxation making one little object after another, until she acquired that admirable surety of execution that one admires in her work—­a quality sometimes lacking in the work of both men and women sculptors.

Since her debut at the Salon of 1886 she has annually exhibited important works.  In 1887 her bust of the danseuse, Marie Salles, was purchased by the Government for the Opera; in 1888 she exhibited a plaster statue, the “Young Scholar,” and the following year the bust of her father; in 1890 a “St. Sebastian” in high relief; in 1891 an “Egyptian Harpist,” which gained her a traveller’s purse and an invitation from the Viceroy of Egypt; in 1893 a Renaissance bas-relief; in 1894 the superb funeral monument dedicated to her father; in 1896 she exhibited, in plaster, the “Bacchante,” which in marble was a brilliant success and gained for her a second-class medal and the palmes academique, while the statue was acquired by the Government.  Mlle. Itasse has also gained official recompenses in provincial exhibitions and has richly won the right to esteem herself mistress of her art.

JACQUEMART, MLLE. NELIE. Medals at Paris Salon, 1868, 1869, and 1870.  Born in Paris.  A very successful portrait painter.  Among the portraits she has exhibited at the Paris Salon are those of Marshal Canrobert, General d’Aurelle de Paladines, General de Palikao, Count de Chambrun, M. Dufaure, and many others, both ladies and gentlemen.  Her portrait of Thiers in 1872 was greatly admired.

Paul d’Abrest wrote of Mlle. Jacquemart, in the Zeitschrift fuer bildende Kunst: “One feels that this artist does not take her inspirations alone from the sittings of her subjects, but that she finds the best part of her work in her knowledge of character and from her close study of the personnelle of those whom she portrays.”