VAN DER VEER, MISS. “This artist,” says a recent critic, “has studied to some purpose in excellent continental schools, and is endowed withal with a creative faculty and breadth in conception rarely found in American painters of either sex.  Her genre work is full of life, light, color, and character, with picturesque grouping, faultless atmosphere, and a breadth of technical treatment that verges on audacity, yet never fails of its designed purpose.”

The fifty pictures exhibited by Miss Van der Veer in Philadelphia, in February, 1904, included interiors, portraits—­mostly in pastel—­flower studies and sketches, treating Dutch peasant life.  Among the most notable of these may be mentioned “The Chimney Corner,” “Saturday Morning,” “Mother and Child,” and a portrait of the artist herself.

WALDAU, MARGARETHE. Born in Breslau, 1860.  After studying by herself in Munich, this artist became a pupil of Streckfuss in Berlin, and later, in Nuremberg, studied under the younger Graeb and Ritter.  The first subject chosen by her for a picture was the “Portal of the Church of the Magdalene.”  Her taste for architectural motives was strengthened by travel in Russia, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.

The fine old churches of Nuremberg and the venerable edifices of Breslau afforded her most attractive subjects, which she treated with such distinction that her pictures were sought by kings and princes as well as by appreciative connoisseurs.

Her success increased her confidence in herself and enhanced the boldness and freedom with which she handled her brush.  An exhibition of her work in Berlin led to her receiving a commission from the Government to paint two pictures for the Paris Exposition, 1900.  “Mayence at Sunset” and the “Leipzig Market-Place in Winter” were the result of this order, and are two of her best works.

Occasionally this artist has painted genre subjects, but her real success has not been in this direction.