Her chief work, however, was a “History of the Insects of Europe, Drawn from Nature, and Explained by Maria Sibylla Merian.”  The illustrations of this work were beautiful and of great interest, as the insects, from their first state to their last, were represented with the plants and flowers which they loved, each object being correctly and tastefully pictured.  Most of the original paintings for these works are in the British Museum.  In the Vienna Gallery is a “Basket of Flowers” by this artist, and in the Basle Museum a picture of “Locust and Chafers.”

The daughters of this learned artist naturalist, Joanna Maria Helena and Dorothea, shared the pursuits and labors of their mother, and it was her intention to publish their drawings as an appendix to her works.  She did not live to do this, and later the daughters published a separate volume of their own.

This extraordinary woman, whose studies and writings added so much to the knowledge of her time, was neither beautiful nor graceful.  Her portraits present a woman with hard and heavy features, her hair in short curls surmounted by a stiff and curious headdress, made of folds of some black stuff.

MERRITT, MRS. ANNA LEA. Honorable mention, Paris Exposition, 1889; two medals and a diploma, Chicago Exposition, 1893.  In 1890 her picture of “Love Locked Out” was purchased by the Chantry fund, London, for two hundred and fifty pounds.  This honor has been accorded to few women, and of these I think Mrs. Merritt was first.  Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.  Born in Philadelphia.  Pupil of Heinrich Hoffman in Dresden, and of Henry Merritt—­whom she married—­in London.

Mrs. Merritt has a home in Hampshire, England, but is frequently in Philadelphia, where she exhibits her pictures, which have also been seen at the Royal Academy since 1871.

This artist is represented by her pictures in the National Gallery of British Art, in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and by her portrait of Mr. James Russell Lowell in Memorial Hall, Harvard University.

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MICHIS, MARIA. See Cattaneo.

MILBACHER, LOUISE VON. Prize at Berlin in 1886.  Born at Boehmischbrod, 1845.  Pupil of Poenninger and Eisenmenger.  A painter of portraits and of sacred and genre subjects.  Three of her portraits are well known—­those of Baron Thienen, General von Neuwirth, and Baron Eber-Eschenbach.  The altar-piece in the chapel of the Vienna Institute, a “Holy Family,” is by this artist.  She has also painted still-life and animal subjects.

MODIGLIANI, SIGNORINA CORINNA. Silver medal at Turin Exposition, 1898; silver medal at the Exposition of Feminine Art, 1899, 1900; diploma at Leghorn, 1901; gold medal.  Member of the International Artistic Association.  Born in Rome.  Pupil of Professore Commendatore Pietro Vanni.

This artist has exhibited her works in the Expositions of Rome, Turin, Milan, Leghorn, Munich, Petersburg, and Paris since 1897, and will contribute to the St. Louis Exposition.  Her pictures have been sold in Paris, London, and Ireland, as well as in Rome and other Italian cities, where many of them are in the collections of distinguished families.