ASSCHE, ISABEL CATHERINE VAN. She was born at Brussels, 1794.  Landscape painter.  She took a first prize at Ghent in 1829, and became a pupil of her uncle, Henri van Assche, who was often called the painter of waterfalls.  As early as 1812 and 1813 two of her water-colors were displayed in Ghent and Brussels respectively, and she was represented in the exhibitions at Ghent in 1826, 1829, and 1835; at Brussels in 1827 and 1842; at Antwerp in 1834, 1837, and 1840; and at Luettich in 1836.  Her subjects were all taken from the neighborhood of Brussels, and one of them belongs to the royal collection in the Pavilion at Haarlem.  In 1828 she married Charles Leon Kindt.

ATHES-PERRELET, LOUISE. First prize and honorable mention, class Gillet and Hebert, 1888; class Bovy, first prize, 1889; Academy class, special mention, 1890; School of Arts, special mention, hors concours, 1891; also, same year, first prize for sculpture, offered by the Society of Arts; first prize offered by the Secretary of the Theatre, 1902.  Member of the Union des Femmes and Cercle Artistique.  Born at Neuchatel.  Studies made at Geneva under Mme. Carteret and Mme. Gillet and Professors Hebert and B. Penn, in drawing and painting; M. Bovy, in sculpture; and of various masters in decorative work and engraving.  Has executed statues, busts, medallion portraits; has painted costumes, according to an invention of her own, for the Theatre of Geneva, and has also made tapestries in New York.  All her works have been commended in the journals of Geneva and New York.

AUSTEN, WINIFRED. Member of Society of Women Artists, London.  Born at Ramsgate.  Pupil of Mrs. Jopling-Rowe and Mr. C. E. Swan.  Miss Austen exhibits in the Royal Academy exhibitions; her works are well hung—­one on the line.

Her favorite subjects are wild animals, and she is successful in the illustration of books.  Her pictures are in private collections.  At the Royal Academy in 1903 she exhibited “The Day of Reckoning,” a wolf pursued by hunters through a forest in snow.  A second shows a snow scene, with a wolf baying, while two others are apparently listening to him.  “While the wolf, in nightly prowl, bays the moon with hideous howl,” is the legend with the picture.

AUZON, PAULINE. Born in Paris, where she died. 1775-1835.  She was a pupil of Regnault and excelled in portraits of women.  She exhibited in the Paris Salon from 1793, when but eighteen years old.  Her pictures of the “Arrival of Marie Louise in Compiegne” and “Marie Louise Taking Leave of her Family” are in the Versailles Gallery.

BABIANO Y MENDEZ NUNEZ, CARMEN. At the Santiago Exposition, 1875, this artist exhibited two oil paintings and two landscapes in crayon; at Coruna, 1878, a portrait in oil of the Marquis de Mendez Nunez; at Pontevedra, 1880, several pen and water-color studies, three life-size portraits in crayon, and a work in oil, “A Girl Feeding Chickens.”