In 1887 Miss Lamb painted an admirable portrait of Mohini Mohun Chatterji, a Brahmin, who spent some months in Boston.

LANCIANI, MARCELLA. Born in Rome, where her studies were made under Professor Giuseppe Ferrari in figure drawing, and under Signor Onorato Carlandi—­the great water-color artist of the Roman Campagna—­in landscape and coloring.

At the annual spring exhibition in the Palazzo delle Belle Arti, Rome, 1903, this artist exhibited four works:  a life-size “Study of the Head of an old Roman Peasant”; a “Sketch near the Mouth of the Tiber at Finniscino”; “An Old Stairway in the Villa d’Este, at Tivoli”; “A View from the Villa Colonna, Rome.”

Two of her sketches, one of the “Tiber” and one of the “Villa Medici,” are in the collection of Mrs. Pierpont Morgan; two similar sketches are in the collection of Mrs. James Leavitt, New York; a copy of a “Madonna” in an old Umbrian church is in a private gallery in Rome; a “Winter Scene in the Villa Borghese” and two other sketches are owned in Edinburgh; the “Lake in the Villa Borghese” is in the collection of Mr. Richard Corbin, Paris; and several other pictures are in private collections in New York.

LANDER, LOUISA. Born in Salem, 1826.  Manifested a taste for sculpture when quite young, and modelled likenesses of the members of her family.  In 1855 she became the pupil of Thomas Crawford in Rome.  Among her earlier works are figures in marble of “To-day” and “Galatea,” the first being emblematic of America.

She executed many portrait busts, one of them being of Nathaniel Hawthorne.  “The Captive Pioneer” is a large group.  Among her ideal works are a statue of Virginia Dare—­the first child born in America of English parents; “Undine,” “Evangeline,” “Virginia,” etc.

LAUKOTA, HERMINIE. Born in Prague, 1853.  After having studied in Prague, Amsterdam, and Munich, she was a pupil of Doris Raab in etching.  She paints portraits, genre and still-life subjects with artistic taste and delicacy.  Her studio is in Prague.  Among her best pictures are “Battle for Truth,” “Sentinels of Peace,” “A Contented Old Woman”; and among her etchings may be named “The Veiled Picture of Sais,” “Prometheus,” “The Microscopist,” “Before the Bar of Reason,” etc.  The latter was reproduced in Zeitschrift fuer bildende Kunst in 1893, and was said to show a powerful fancy.

In 1875 and 1876 she exhibited her etchings in Vienna.  The “Going to Baptism” in the second exhibition was much admired and aroused unusual interest.

LA VILLETTE, MME. ELODIE. Third-class medal, Paris Salon, 1875; bronze medal, Paris Exposition, 1889; second-class medal, Melbourne Exposition; numerous diplomas and medals from provincial exhibitions in France; also from Vienna, Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, London, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Munich, and Chicago.  Officer of the Academy.  Born at Strasbourg.  Educated at Lorient.  She began to study drawing and painting under Coroller, a professor in the school she attended.  She then studied six months in the Atelier School at Strasbourg, and finally became a pupil of Dubois at Arras.  She has exhibited since 1870.