LOEWENTHAL, BARONESS ANKA. Born at Ogulin, Croatia, 1853.  Pupil of Karl von Blaas and Julius von Payer.  Some portraits by this artist are in the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Agram.  But religious subjects were most frequently treated by her, and a number of these are in the Croatian churches.  The “Madonna Immaculata” is in the Gymnasial Kirche, Meran, and a “Mater Dolorosa” in the Klosterkirche, Bruck a. d.  Meer.

LONGHI, BARBARA. Born in Ravenna. 1552-1619(?).  Daughter of Luca Longhi.  She was an excellent artist and her works were sought for good collections.  A portrait by her is in the Castellani Collection, dated 1589; “St. Monica,” “Judith,” and the “Healing of St. Agatha” are in the Ravenna Academy; a “Virgin and Child” is in the Louvre, and “Mary with the Children” in the Dresden Gallery.

LONGMAN, E. B. This sculptor has a commission to execute a statue of Victory for a dome at the St. Louis Exposition.

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LOOP, MRS. HENRY A. Elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1875.  Born in New Haven, 1840.  Pupil of Professor Louis Bail in New Haven, of Henry A. Loop in New York, later spending two years in study in Paris, Venice, and Rome.

Mrs. Loop is essentially a portrait painter, but occasionally has painted figure pictures, such as “Baby Belle,” “A Little Runaway,” “A Bouquet for Mama,” etc.  Her portraits of Professors Low and Hadley of New Haven were much admired; those of Mrs. Joseph Lee, Miss Alexander, and other ladies were exhibited at the Academy.

“Mrs. Loop’s picture is an honest, unpretending work, well drawn, naturally posed, and clearly, solidly colored.  There is not a trace of affectation about it.  The artistic effects are produced in the most straightforward way.”—­Clarence Cook, in New York Tribune.

“Mrs. Loop is certainly the leading portrait painter among our lady artists.  She is vigorous, conscientious, and perceptive.”—­Chicago Times, 1875.

LOTZ, MATILDA. Gold medal at School of Design, California.  Born in Franklin, Tennessee.  This artist is sometimes called “the Rosa Bonheur of America.”  She began to draw pictures of animals when seven years old.  Later she studied under Virgil Williams in San Francisco and under M. Barrios and Van Marcke in Paris.

She has travelled extensively in the East, painting camels, dromedaries, etc.  Her work has a vigor and breadth well suited to her subjects, while she gives such attention to details as make her pictures true to life.  One critic writes:  “Her oxen and camels, like Rosa Bonheur’s horses, stand out from canvas as living things.  They have been the admiration of art lovers at the Salon in Paris, the Royal Academy in London, and at picture exhibitions in Austria-Hungary and Germany.”

[Illustration:  A FAMILY OF DOGS

MATILDA LOTZ]