PAZZI, CATERINA DE, whose conventual name was Maria Maddalena.  Was born in Florence in 1566.  It would be interesting to know the relation that this gentle lady bore to those Pazzi who had earned a fame so unlike hers fourscore years before she saw the light.

Caterina de Pazzi, when a mere girl, entered a convent which stood on the site of the church known by her name in the Via Pinti.  The cell of Santa Maddalena—­now a chapel—­may still be visited.  She was canonized by Pope Alexander VIII. in 1670, sixty-two years after her death.

The Florentines have many lovely legends associated with her memory.  One of these relates that she painted pictures of sacred subjects when asleep.  Be this as it may, we know that her pictures were esteemed in the days when the best artists lived and worked beside her.  Examples of her art may still be seen in churches in Rome and Parma, as well as in the church of her native city which bears her name.

PEALE, ANNA C. Made her mark as a miniature painter and for some years was the only professional woman artist in Philadelphia.  Her portrait of General Jackson made in 1819 was well considered.  She also made portraits of President Monroe, Henry Clay, R. M. Johnson, John Randolph of Roanoke, and other prominent men.  Miss Peale married in 1829 the Rev. William Staughton, a Baptist clergyman, the president of the theological college at Georgetown, Kentucky.  He lived but three months after their marriage, and she returned to Philadelphia and again pursued her artistic labors.  She married a second husband, General William Duncan, and from this time gave up professional painting.

PEALE, SARA M. 1860-1885.  Daughter of James Peale, under whose teaching she made her first studies.  She was also a pupil of her uncle, the founder of Peale’s Museum, Philadelphia.  Miss Peale painted portraits and spent some years in Baltimore and Washington.  Among her portraits are those of Lafayette, Thomas Benton, Henry A. Wise, Caleb Cushing, and other distinguished men.  From 1847 she resided in St. Louis thirty years and then went to Philadelphia.  Her later works were still-life subjects, especially fruits.

PELICHY, GEERTRUIDA. Honorary member of the Academy of Vienna.  Born in Utrecht, 1744; died in Bruegge, 1825.  Pupil of P. de Cock and Suvee.  In 1753, she went to Bruegge with her father, and later to Paris and Vienna.  She painted portraits of the Emperor Joseph II. and Maria Theresa, some good landscapes, and animal studies.  Two of her pictures are in the Museum at Bruegge.

PELLEGRINO, ITALA. Born at Milan, 1865.  Pupil of Battaglia.  Her pictures are of genre and marine subjects.  At the great exhibition at Turin, 1884, she exhibited a marine view which was bought by Prince Amadeo.  Another marine view exhibited at Milan was acquired by the Societa Promotrice.  In 1888 she sent to the exhibition at Naples, where she resides, a view of Portici, which was added to the Royal Gallery.  The excellence of her work is in the strength and certainty of touch and the sincerity and originality of composition.  She has painted a “Marine View of Naples,” “In the Gulf,” “Fair Weather,” and “Evening at Sea”; also a genre picture, “Frusta la,” which was sold while in an exhibition in Rome.