received a government scholarship, she went to Munich, Bologna, and Florence, and lived three years and a half in Rome, where she was associated with Fogelberg, Overbeck, and Schnetz, and became a Catholic.  During this time she copied Raphael’s “Transfiguration,” now in the Catholic church at Stockholm, and painted from life a portrait of Pius IX. for the castle at Drottningholm.  She also painted a “Roman Dancing Girl” and a “Beggar Girl of Terracina.”

AHRENS, ELLEN WETHERALD. Second Toppan prize, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.  Second prize and silver medal, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, 1902.  Member of the Pennsylvania Academy, the Plastic Club, and the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters.  Born in Baltimore.  Studied at Boston Museum of Fine Arts under Grundmann, Champney, and Stone; Pennsylvania Academy under Thomas Eakins; Drexel Institute under Howard Pyle.

Many of her portraits are in private hands.  That called “Sewing,” a prize picture, will be in the St. Louis Exhibition.  Her portrait of Mr. Ellwood Johnson is in the Pennsylvania Academy.  That of Mary Ballard—­a miniature—­was solicited for exhibition by the Copley Society, Boston.

Miss Ahrens is also favorably known as a designer for stained-glass windows.

ALCOTT, MAY—­MME. NIERIKER. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, 1840-79.  A sister of the well-known author, Louisa M. Alcott.  This artist studied in the Boston School of Design, in Krug’s Studio, Paris, and under Mueller.  She made wonderful copies of Turner’s pictures, both in oil and water colors, which were greatly praised by Ruskin and were used in the South Kensington Art Schools for the pupils to copy.  Her still-life and flower pictures are in private collections and much valued.

She exhibited at the Paris Salon and in the Dudley Gallery, London, and, student as she still was, her works were approved by art critics on both sides of the Atlantic, and a brilliant future as an artist was foretold for her.  Her married life was short, and her death sincerely mourned by a large circle of friends, as well as by the members of her profession who appreciated her artistic genius and her enthusiasm for her work.

ALEXANDER, FRANCESCA. Born in Florence, Italy.  Daughter of the portrait painter, Francis Alexander.  Her pen-and-ink drawing is her best work.  The exquisite conceits in her illustrations were charmingly rendered by the delicacy of her work.  She thus illustrated an unpublished Italian legend, writing the text also.

Mr. Ruskin edited her “Story of Ida” and brought out “Roadside Songs of Tuscany,” collected, translated, and illustrated by this artist.  A larger collection of these songs, with illustrations, was published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., entitled “Tuscan Songs.”