Of a portrait exhibited in 1896, at Munich, a critic said that while it was not wholly bad, it was no better than what hundreds of others could do as well, and hundreds of others could do much better.

PASCH, ULRICKE FRIEDERIKA. Member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Sweden.  Born in Stockholm. 1735-1796.  A portrait of Gustavus-Adolphus II. by this artist is in the Castle at Stockholm.  She was a sister of Lorenz Pasch.

PASCOLI, LUIGIA. This Venetian painter has exhibited in various Italian cities since 1870, when she sent a “Magdalen” to Parma.  “First Love” appeared at Naples in 1877, and “The Maskers”—­pastel—­at Venice in 1881.  A “Girl with a Cat,” a “Roman Girl,” and a “Seller of Eggs”—­the latter in Venetian costume—­are works of true value.  Her copies of Titian’s “St. Mark” and of Gian Bellini’s “Supper at Emmaus” have attracted attention and are much esteemed.

PASSE, MAGDALENA VAN DE. Born at Utrecht about 1600; she died at the age of forty.  This engraver was a daughter of Crispus van de Passe, the elder.  She practised her art in Germany, England, Denmark, and the Netherlands, and was important as an artist.  Her engraving was exceedingly careful and skilful.  Among her plates are “Three Sibyls,” 1617; an “Annunciation,” “Cephalus and Procris,” “Latona,” and landscapes after the works of Bril, Savery, Willars, etc.

PATTISON, HELEN SEARLE. Born in Burlington, Vermont.  Daughter of Henry Searle, a talented architect who moved to Rochester, New York, where his daughter spent much of her girlhood.  She held the position of art teacher in a school in Batavia, New York, while still a girl herself.

About 1860 she became the pupil of Herr Johan Wilhelm Preyer, the well-known painter of still-life, fruit, and flowers.  Preyer was a dwarf and an excellent man, but as a rule took no pupils.  He was much interested in Miss Searle, and made an exception in her case.  She soon acquired the technique of her master and painted much as he did, but with less minute detail, finer color, and far more sentiment.

[Illustration:  FLOWERS

HELEN SEARLE PATTISON]

In 1876 Miss Searle married the artist, James William Pattison, now on the staff of the Art Institute, Chicago.  After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Pattison resided at Ecouen, near Paris.  Returning to America in 1882, they spent some time in Chicago and New York City, removing to Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1884.  Here Mr. Pattison was at the head of the School of Fine Arts.

Mrs. Pattison lived but a few months in Jacksonville, dying in November, 1884.

Mrs. Pattison’s artistic reputation was well established and her works were exhibited at the Paris Salon and in all the German cities of importance.  They were frequently seen in England and at the National Academy of Design in New York.  Her subjects were still-life, fruit, and flowers, and her works are widely distributed.