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STOCKS, MINNA. Born in Scheverin, 1846.  Pupil of Schloepke in Scheverin, Stiffeck in Berlin, E. Bosch in Duesseldorf, and J. Bauck in Munich.  Her “Lake of Scheverin” is in the Museum of her native city.

Her artistic reputation rests largely on her pictures of animals.  She exhibits at the Expositions of the Society of Women Artists, Berlin, and among her pictures seen there is “A Journey through Africa,” which represents kittens playing with a map of that country.  It was attractive and was praised for its artistic merit.  In fact, her puppies and kittens are most excellent results—­have been called masterpieces—­of the most intimate and intelligent study of nature.

Among her works are “A Quartet of Cats,” “The Hostile Brothers,” and “The Outcast.”

STOKES, MARIANNA. Honorable mention at Paris Salon, 1884; gold medal in Munich, 1890; medal at Chicago in 1893.  Member of the Society of Painters in Tempera.  Born in Graz-Styria.  Pupil of Professor W. von Lindenschmit in Munich, of M. Dagnan Bouveret and M. Courtois in Paris.

Her picture, “A Parting,” is in the Liverpool Gallery; “Childhood’s Wonder,” in the Nottingham Gallery; “Aucassin and Nicolette,” in the Pittsburg Gallery, etc.

Mrs. Stokes writes me that she has taken great interest in the revival of tempera painting in recent years.  In reviewing the exhibition in the New Gallery, London, the Spectator of May 2, 1903, speaks of the portraits by Mrs. Stokes as charming, and adds:  “They are influenced by the primitive painters, but in the right way.  That is, the painter has used a formal and unrealistic style, but without any sacrifice of artistic freedom.”  Of a portrait of a child the same writer says:  “It would be difficult to imagine a happier portrait of a little child,... and in it may be seen how the artist has used her freedom; for although she has preserved a primitive simplicity, the sky, sea, and windmill have modern qualities of atmosphere.  The picture is very subtle in drawing and color, and the sympathy for child-life is perfect, seen as it is both in the hands and in the eyes.

“Another portrait by the same artist is hung on a marble pillar at the top of the stairs leading up to the balcony.  The admirable qualities of decoration are well shown by the way it is hung....  Is a fine piece of strong and satisfactory color, but the decorative aspect in no way takes precedence of the portraiture.  We think of the man first and the picture afterward.”

At the Academy, in 1903, Mrs. Stokes exhibited a portrait of J. Westlake, Esq., K.C.

STORER, MRS. MARIA LONGWORTH. Gold medal at Paris Exposition, 1900.  Born in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Pupil of the Cincinnati Art School, which her father, Joseph Longworth, endowed with three hundred thousand dollars.

After working four years, making experiments in clay decoration at the Dallas White Ware Pottery, Mrs. Storer, “who had the enthusiasm of the artistic temperament coupled with fixity of purpose and financial resources,... had the courage to open a Pottery which she called Rookwood, the name of her father’s place on the hills beyond.  This was in 1880.”