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KIRCHSBERG, ERNESTINE VON. Medal at Chicago Exposition, 1893.  Born in Verona, 1857.  Pupil of Schaeffer and Darnaut.  This artist has exhibited in Vienna since 1881, and some of her works have been purchased for the royal collection.  Her landscapes, both in oil and water-colors, have established her reputation as an excellent artist, and she gains the same happy effects in both mediums.  Her picture shown at Chicago was “A Peasant Home in Southern Austria.”

KIRSCHNER, MARIE. Born at Prague, 1852.  Pupil of Adolf Lier in Munich, and Jules Dupre and Alfred Stevens in Paris.  In 1883 she travelled in Italy, and has had her studio in Berlin and in Prague.  The Rudolfinum at Prague contains her “Village Tulleschitz in Bohemia.”  She is also, known by many flower pieces and by the “Storm on the Downs of Heyst,” “Spring Morning,” and a “Scene on the Moldau.”

KITSON, MRS. H. H. Honorable mention, Paris Exposition, 1889; and the same at Paris Salon, 1890; two medals from Massachusetts Charitable Association; and has exhibited in all the principal exhibitions of the United States.  Born in Brookline.  Pupil of her husband, Henry H. Kitson, and of Dagnan-Bouveret in Paris.

The women of Michigan commissioned Mrs. Kitson to make two bronze statues representing the woods of their State for the Columbian Exhibition at Chicago.  Her principal works are the statue of a volunteer for the Soldiers’ Monument at Newburyport; Soldiers’ Monument at Ashburnham; Massachusetts State Monument to 29th, 35th, and 36th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry at National Military Park at Vicksburg; also medallion portraits of Generals Dodge, Ransom, Logan, Blair, Howard, A. J. Smith, Grierson, and McPherson, for the Sherman Monument at Washington.

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KLUMPKE, ANNA ELIZABETH. Honorable mention, Paris Salon, 1885; silver medal, Versailles, 1886; grand prize, Julian Academy, 1889; Temple gold medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1889; bronze medal, Paris Exposition, 1889.  Member of the Copley Society, Boston; of the Society of Baron Taylor, Paris; and of the Paris Astronomical Society.  Born in San Francisco.  Pupil of the Julian Academy, under Robert-Fleury, and Jules Lefebvre, where she received, in 1888, the prize of the silver medal and one hundred francs—­the highest award given at the annual Portrait Concours, between the men and women students of the above Academy.

[Illustration:  PORTRAIT OF ROSA BONHEUR

ANNA E. KLUMPKE]

Among Miss Klumpke’s principal works are:  “In the Wash-house,” owned by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; portrait of Mrs. Nancy Foster, at the Chicago University; “Maternal Instruction,” in the collection of Mr. Randolph Jefferson Coolidge, Boston; many portraits, among which are those of Madame Klumpke, Rosa Bonheur, Mrs. Thorp, Mrs. Sargent, Count Kergaradec, etc.