Her picture of “Roses and Grapes” is in the National Gallery, London; and one of “Autumn Flowers” in the Museum at Stuttgart.

PILLINI, MARGHERITA. An Italian painter living in Paris.  Her most successful exhibitions have been those at Rome, in 1883, when her “Silk-cocoon Carder of Quimper” and “Charity” appeared; and at Turin, in 1884, when “The Three Ages,” “The Poor Blind Man,” and a portrait of the Prince of Naples were shown, all exquisite in sentiment and excellent in execution.  The “Silk-cocoon Carder of Quimper” has been thus noticed by De Rengis:  “If I am not mistaken, Signora Margherita Pillini has also taken this road, full of modernity, but not free from great danger.  Her ‘Silk-cocoon Carder’ is touched with great disdain for every suggestion of the old school.  Rare worth—­if worth it is—­that a young woman should be carried by natural inclination into such care for detail.”

PINTO-SEZZI, IDA. Silver medal at the Beatrice Exposition, Florence, 1890.  Since 1882 pictures by this artist have been seen in various Italian exhibitions.  In the Beatrice of that year she exhibited “Cocciara,” and in 1887 “A Friar Cook.”  Her “Fortune-Teller” attracted general attention at Venice in 1887.

This artist has also given some time to the decoration of terra-cotta in oil colors.  An amphora decorated with landscape and figures was exhibited at the Promotrice in Florence in 1889 (?) and much admired.

POETTING, COUNTESS ADRIENNE. Born in Chrudim, Bohemia, 1856.  The effect of her thorough training under Blass, Straschiripka, and Frittjof Smith is seen in her portraits of the Deputy-Burgomaster Franz Khume, which is in the Rathhaus, Vienna, as well as in those of the Princess Freda von Oldenburg and the writer, Bertha von Suttner.  Her excellence is also apparent in her genre subjects, “In the Land of Dreams” being an excellent example of these.

POPERT, CHARLOTTE. Silver medal at the Beatrice, Florence, 1890.  Born in Hamburg, 1848.  Pupil in Weimar of the elder Preller and Carl Gherts; of P. Joris in Rome, and Bonnat in Paris.  After extensive travels in the Orient, England, the Netherlands, and Spain, she established herself in Rome and painted chiefly in water-colors.  Her “Praying Women of Bethlehem” is an excellent example of her art.

In 1883 she exhibited at Rome, “In the Temple at Bethlehem”; at Turin in 1884, “In the Seventeenth Century” and “The Nun”; at Venice in 1887, an exquisite portrait in water-colors.

POPPE-LUeDERITZ, ELIZABETH. Honorable mention, Berlin, 1891.  For the second time only the Senate of the Berlin Academy conferred this distinction upon a woman.  The artist exhibited two portraits, “painted with Holbein-like delicacy and truthfulness”—­if we may agree with the critics.

This artist was born in Berlin in 1858, and was a pupil of Gussow.  Her best pictures are portraits, but her “Sappho” and “Euphrosine” are excellent works.