MANKIEWICZ, HENRIETTE. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.  A series of her mural decorations was exhibited in various German cities, and finally shown at the Paris Exposition of 1890(?), where they excited such applause that the above honor was accorded her.  These decorations are in the form of panels, in which water, in its varying natural aspects, supplies the subordinate features, while the fundamental motive is vegetation of every description.  The artist has evidently felt the influence of Markart in Vienna, and some of her conceptions remind one of H. von Preusschen.  Her technique is a combination of embroidery, painting, and applications on silk.  Whether this combination of methods is desirable is another question, but as a means of decoration it is highly effective.

At an exhibition of paintings by women of Saxony, held in Dresden under the patronage of Queen Carola in the fall of 1892, this artist exhibited another decorative panel, done in the same manner, which seems to have been a great disappointment to those who had heard wonderful accounts of the earlier cycle of panels.  It was too full of large-leaved flowers, and the latter were too brilliant to serve as a foreground to the Alhambra scenes, which were used as the chief motive.

MANLY, ALICE ELFRIDA. A national gold medal and the Queen’s gold medal, at the Royal Female School of Art, London.  Member of the Dudley Gallery Art Society and the Hampstead Art Society.  Born in London.  Pupil of the above-mentioned School and of the Royal Academy Schools.

This artist has exhibited at the Academy, at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors, and other exhibitions.  Her pictures have frequently been sold from the exhibitions and reproduced.  Among these are “Sympathy,” sold as first prize in Derby Art Union; “Diverse Attractions”; “Interesting Discoveries”; “Coming,” sold from the Royal Academy; “Gossips”; “The Wedding Gown,” etc.

Miss Manly has done much work for publishers, which has been reproduced in colors and in black and white.  She usually combines figures and landscape.

MANTOVANI, SIGNORA S. ROME.

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MARAINI, ADELAIDE. Gold medal in Florence, at Beatrice Exposition, 1903.  Born in 1843.  This sculptor resides in Rome, where her works have been made.  An early example of her art, “Camilla,” while it gave proof of her artistic temperament, was unimportant; but her later works, as they have followed each other, have constantly gained in excellence, and have won her an enviable reputation.  Among her statues are “Amleto,” “The Sulamite Woman,” and “Sappho.”  The last was enthusiastically received in Paris in 1878, and is the work which gained the prize at Florence, where it was said to be the gem of the exhibition.  She has also executed a monument to Attilio Lemmi, which represents “Youth Weeping over the Tomb of the Dead,” and is in the Protestant Cemetery at Florence; a bas-relief, the “Angels of Prayer and of the Resurrection”; a group, “Romeo and Juliet”; and portraits of Carlo Cattanei, Giuseppe Civinini, Signora Allievi, Senator Musio, the traveller De Albertis, and Victor Emmanuel.