JANDA, HERMINIE VON. Born at Klosterbruch, 1854.  Pupil of Ludwig Holanska and Hugo Darnaut.  Since 1886 her landscapes have been seen in various Austrian exhibitions.  One of these was bought for the “Franzens-Museum” at Bruenn, while several others were acquired by the Imperial House of Austria.

JENKS, PHOEBE A. PICKERING. Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1849.  Mrs. Jenks writes that she has had no teachers.

Her works, being portraits, are mostly in the homes of their owners, but that of the son of T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., has been exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and that of Mrs. William Slater and her son is in the Slater Museum at Norwich.

[Illustration:  MOTHER AND CHILD

PHOEBE JENKS]

Mrs. Jenks has been constantly busy in portrait painting for twenty-seven years, and has had no time for clubs and societies.  She esteems the fact of her constant commissions the greatest honor that she could have.  She has probably painted a greater number of portraits than any other Boston contemporary artist.

JERICHAU-BAUMANN, ELIZABETH. 1819-1881.  Honorable mention, Paris Salon, 1861.  Member of the Academy of Copenhagen.  Born in Warsaw.  Pupil of Karl Sohne and Stilke, in Duesseldorf.  In Rome she married the Danish sculptor Jerichau and afterward lived in Copenhagen.  She travelled in England, France, Russia, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt.

Her picture of a “Polish Woman and Children Leaving Their Home, which had been Destroyed,” is in the Raczynski Collection, Berlin; “Polish Peasants Returning to the Ruins of a Burnt House,” in the Lansdowne Collection, London; “A Wounded Soldier Nursed by His Betrothed,” in the Gallery at Copenhagen, where is also her portrait of her husband; “An Icelandic Maiden,” in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg.  Her picture, “Reading the Bible,” was painted for Napoleon III. at his request.  Mme. Jerichau painted a portrait of the present Queen of England, in her wedding dress.  A large number of her works are in private houses in Copenhagen.

One of her most important pictures was a life-size representation of “Christian Martyrs in the Catacombs.”  This picture was much talked of in Rome, where it was painted, and the Pope desired to see it.  Madame Jerichau took the picture to the Vatican.  On seeing it the Pope expressed surprise that one who was not of his Church could paint this picture.  Mme. Jerichau, hearing this, replied:  “Your Holiness, I am a Christian.”

Hans Christian Andersen was an intimate friend in the Jerichau family.  He attended the wedding in Rome, and wrote the biographies of Professor and Mme. Jerichau.

Theophile Gautier once said that but three women in Europe merited the name of artists—­Rosa Bonheur, Henrietta Brown, and Elizabeth Jerichau; and Cornelius called her “the one woman in the Duesseldorf School,” because of her virile manner of painting.