At the exhibition of the Philadelphia Water-Color Club, 1903, the Press said:  “These brilliant and overpowering combinations of color carry to a limit not before reached the decorative possibilities of flowers.”

Mrs. Sears’ honors have been awarded to her portraits.

SEIDLER, CAROLINE LUISE. Born in Jena, 1786; died in Weimar, 1866.  Her early studies were made in Gotha with Doell; in 1811 she went to Dresden, where she became a pupil of G. von Kuegelgen; in 1817 Langer received her into his Munich studio; and between 1818 and 1823 she was in Italy, making special studies of Vanucci and Raphael.  In 1823 she was appointed instructor of the royal princesses at Weimar, and in 1824 inspector of the gallery there, and later became court painter.  Among her works are a portrait of Goethe, a picture of “Ulysses and the Sirens,” and one of “Christ, the Compassionate,” which is in the church at Schestadt, Holstein.

SERRANO Y BARTOLOME, JOAQUINA. Born in Fermoselle.  Pupil in Madrid of Juan Espalter, of the School of Arts and Crafts, and of the School of Painting.  She sent four pictures to the Exposition of 1876 in Madrid:  the portrait of a young woman, a still-life subject, a bunch of grapes, and a “Peasant Girl”—­the last two are in the Museum of Murcia.  In 1878 she sent “A Kitchen Maid on Saturday,” a study, a flower piece, and two still-life pictures; and in 1881 two portraits and some landscapes.  Her portrait of the painter Fortuny, which belongs to the Society of Authors and Artists, gained her a membership in that Society.  Two other excellent portraits are those of her teacher, Espalter, and General Trillo.

SEWELL, AMANDA BREWSTER. Bronze medal, Chicago, 1893; bronze medal, Buffalo, 1901; silver medal, Charleston; Clarke prize, Academy of Design, 1903.  Member of the Woman’s Art Club and an associate of National Academy of Design.  Born in Northern New York.  Pupil at Cooper Union under Douglas Volk and R. Swain Gifford, and of Art Students’ League under William Chase and William Sartain; also of Julian’s Academy under Tony Robert Fleury and Bouguereau, and of Carolus Duran.

Mrs. Sewell’s “A Village Incident” is owned by the Philadelphia Social Art Club; “Where Roses Bloom” is in the Boston Art Club; portrait of Professor William R. Ware is in the Library of Columbia University.  Her portrait of Amalia Kuessner will be exhibited and published.

Mrs. Sewell is the first woman to take the Clarke prize.  She has been a careful student in the arrangement of portraits in order to make attractive pictures as well as satisfactory likenesses.  Of the pictures she exhibited at the Academy of Design, winter of 1903, Charles H. Caffin writes: