PENICKE, CLARA. Born at Berlin in 1818, where she died in 1899.  She studied first with Remy and later with Carl Begas and Edward Magnus.  Her work was largely confined to portrait and historical painting.  In the Gallery at Schwerin is her “Elector Frederick of Saxony Refusing to Accept the Interim.”  Another good example of her historical work is the “Reconciliation of Charlemagne with Thassilo of Bavaria.”  A well-known and strongly modelled portrait of Minister Von Stoach and several Luther portraits, “Luther’s Family Devotion” and “Luther Finds the First Latin Bible,” show her facility in this branch of art.  She also painted a “Christ on the Cross.”

PERELLI, LIDA. A landscape painter living in Milan, who has become well known by pictures that have been seen at the exhibitions in several Italian cities, especially through some Roman studies that appeared at Florence and Turin in 1884.  “A View of Lecco, Lake Como,” “Casolare,” and “A Lombard Plain” are among her best works.

PERMAN, LOUISE E. Born at Birkenshaw, Renfrewshire.  Studied in Glasgow.  This artist paints roses, and roses only, in oils.  In this art she has been very successful.  She has exhibited at the Royal Academy and the New Gallery, London; at the Royal Scottish Academy, Glasgow; at art exhibits in Munich, Dresden, Berlin, Prague, Hanover, etc., and wherever her works have been seen they have been sold.  In May, 1903, a collection of twenty-five rose pictures were exhibited by a prominent dealer, and but few were left in his hands.

A critic in the Studio of April, 1903, writing of the exhibition at the Ladies’ Artists’ Club, Glasgow, says:  “Miss Louise Perman’s rose pictures were as refined and charming as ever.  This last-named lady certainly has a remarkable power of rendering the beauties of the queen of flowers, whether she chooses to paint the sumptuous yellow of the ‘Marechal Niel,’ the blush of the ‘Katherine Mermet,’ or the crimson glory of the ’Queen of Autumn.’  She seems not only to give the richness of color and fulness of contour of the flowers, but to capture for the delight of the beholder the very spiritual essence of them.”  To the London Academy, 1903, she sent a picture called “York and Lancaster.”

PERRIER, MARIE. Mention honorable at Salon des Artistes Francais, 1899; Prix Marie Bashkirtseff, 1899; honorable mention, Paris Exposition, 1900; numerous medals from foreign and provincial exhibitions; medals in gold and silver at Rouen, Nimes, Rennes, etc.; bronze medals at Amiens and Angers.  Member of the Societe des Artistes Francais; perpetual member of the Baron Taylor Association, section of the Arts of Painting, etc.  Born at Paris.  Pupil of Benjamin Constant, Jules Lefebvre, and J. P. Laurens.

Mlle. Perrier’s picture of “Jeanne d’Arc” is in a provincial museum; several pictures by her belonging to the city of Paris are scenes connected with the schools of the city—­“Breakfast at the Communal School”; “After School at Montmartre” were at the Salon des Artistes Francais, 1903; others are “Manual Labor at the Maternal School,” “Flowers,” and “Recreation of the Children at the Maternal School.”  Of the last Gabriel Moury says, “It is one of the really good pictures in the Salon.”