The chief criticism that can be made of her pictures is that she was less skilful in the grouping of her flowers than in their painting.  Many of her works are in private galleries, especially in Holland.  They are rarely sold; in London, about thirty years ago, a small “Bouquet of Flowers with Insects” was sold for more than two thousand dollars, and is now of double that value.

Her pictures have the same clearness and individuality that are seen in her portrait, in which she has short hair, a simple low-cut dress, with a necklace of beads about the throat.

SALLES, ADELHEID. Born in Dresden, 1825; died in Paris, 1890.  Pupil of Bernhard and Jacquand, she established her studio in Paris.  Many of her works are in museums:  “Elijah in the Desert,” at Lyons; “The Legend of the Alyscamps,” at Nimes; “The Village Maiden,” at Grenoble; “Field Flowers,” at Havre, etc.  She also painted portraits and historical subjects, among which are “Psyche in Olympus,” “The Daughters of Jerusalem in the Babylonian Captivity,” and the “Daughter of Jairus.”

She was a sister of E. Puyroche-Wagner.

SARTAIN, EMILY. Medal at Philadelphia Exhibition, 1876; Mary Smith prize at the Pennsylvania Academy for best painting by a woman, in 1881 and 1883.  Born in Philadelphia, 1841.  Miss Sartain has been the principal of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women since 1886.

She studied engraving under her father, John Sartain, and with Luminais in Paris.  She engraved and etched book illustrations and numerous larger prints.  She is also a painter of portraits and genre pictures, and has exhibited at the Salon des Beaux-Arts, Paris.  Miss Sartain has been appointed as delegate from the United States to the International Congress on Instruction in Drawing to be held at Berne next August.  Her appointment was recommended by the Secretary of the Interior, the United States Commissioner of Education, and Prof.  J. H. Gore.  Miss Sartain has also received letters from Switzerland from M. Leon Genoud, president of the Swiss Commission, begging her to accept the appointment.

SCHAEFER, MARIA. First-class medal, Bene-merenti, Roumania.  Born in Dresden, 1854.  Her first studies were made in Darmstadt under A. Noack; later she was a pupil of Budde and Bauer in Duesseldorf, and finally of Eisenmenger in Vienna.  After travelling in Italy in 1879, she settled in Darmstadt.  She made several beautiful copies of Holbein’s “Madonna,” one for the King of Roumania, and one as a gift from the city of Darmstadt to the Czarina Alexandra.  Among her most excellent portraits are those of Friedrich von Schmidt and his son Henry.  Several of her religious paintings ornament German churches:  “St. Elizabeth” is at Biedenkopf, “Mary’s Departure from the Tomb of Christ” is at Nierstein, and “Christ with St. Louis and St. Elizabeth” and a Rosary picture are in the Catholic church at Darmstadt.