ALMA-TADEMA, LADY LAURA THERESE. Gold medal at International Art Exhibition, Berlin, 1876; medal at Chicago, 1893; second-class medal at Paris Exhibition, 1900.  Born in London.  From early childhood this artist was fond of drawing and had the usual drawing-class lessons at school and also drew from the antique in the British Museum.  Her serious study, however, began at the age of eighteen, under the direction of Laurenz Alma-Tadema.

Her pictures are principally of domestic scenes, child-life, and other genre subjects.  “Battledore and Shuttlecock” is an interior, with a graceful girl playing the game, to the amusement of a young child sitting on a nurse’s lap.  The room is attractive, the accessories well painted, and a second girl just coming through the door and turning her eyes up to the shuttlecock is an interesting figure.

Of quite a different character is the picture called “In Winter.”  The landscape is very attractive.  In a sled, well wrapped up, is a little girl, with a doll on her lap; the older boy—­brother?—­who pushes the sled from behind, leaning over the child, does his part with a will, and the dignified and serious expression on the face of the little girl in the sled indicates her sense of responsibility in the care of the doll as well as a feeling of deep satisfaction in her enjoyable outing.

Among the more important pictures by Lady Alma-Tadema are “Hush-a-Bye,” “Parting,” in the Art Gallery at Adelaide, New South Wales, “Silent Persuasion,” “The Carol,” and “Satisfaction.”  Her picture in the Academy Exhibition, 1903, a Dutch interior with a young mother nursing “The Firstborn,” was much admired and was in harmony with the verse,

    Lie on mother’s knee, my own,
      Dance your heels about me! 
    Apples leave the tree, my own. 
      Soon you’ll live without me.”

AMEN, MADAME J. Honorable mention, Paris, 1901.

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ANGUISCIOLA, LUCIA. A pupil of her sister Sofonisba, painted a life-size portrait of Piermaria, a physician of Cremona.  It is in the gallery of the Prado, Madrid, and is signed, “Lucia Angvisola Amilcares.  F. Adolescens.”

Lucia’s portrait of her sister Europa is at Brescia.  Some authorities believe that the small portrait in the Borghese Gallery is by Lucia, although it has been attributed to Sofonisba.

Vasari relates that Europa and a younger sister, Anna Maria, were artists.  A picture of the Holy Family, inscribed with Europa’s name, was formerly in the possession of a vicar of the church of San Pietro; it was of far less merit than the works of her sisters.

ANGUISCIOLA, SOFONISBA. Born in Cremona, about 1539.  Daughter of the patrician, Amilcare Anguisciola, whose only fame rests on the fact that he was the father of six daughters, all of whom were distinguished by unusual talents in music and painting.  Dear old Vasari was so charmed by his visit to their palace that he pronounced it “the very home of painting and of all other accomplishments.”