BAILY, CAROLINE A. B. Gold medal, Paris Exposition, 1900; third-class medal, Salon, 1901.

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BAKER, ELIZABETH GOWDY. Medal at Cooper Union.  Member of Boston Art Students’ Association and Art Workers’ Club for Women, New York.  Born at Xenia, Ohio.  Pupil of the Cooper Union, Art Students’ League, New York School of Art, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, Cowles Art School, Boston; under Frederick Freer, William Chase, and Siddons Mowbray.

This artist has painted numerous portraits and has been especially successful with pictures of children.  She has a method of her own of which she has recently written me.

[Illustration:  A PORTRAIT

ELIZABETH GOWDY BAKER]

She claims that it is excellent for life-size portraits in water-colors.  The paper she uses is heavier than any made in this country, and must be imported; the water-colors are very strong.  Mrs. Baker claims that in this method she gets “the strength of oils with the daintiness of water-colors, and that it is beautiful for women and children, and sufficiently strong for portraits of men.”

She rarely exhibits, and her portraits are in private houses.

BAKHUYZEN, JUFFROUW GERARDINA JACOBA VAN DE SANDE. Silver medal at The Hague, 1857; honorary medal at Amsterdam, 1861; another at The Hague, 1863; and a medal of distinction at Amsterdam Colonial Exhibition, 1885.  Daughter of the well-known animal painter.  From childhood she painted flowers, and for a time this made no especial impression on her family or friends, as it was not an uncommon occupation for girls.  At length her father saw that this daughter, Gerardina—­for he had numerous daughters, and they all desired to be artists—­had talent, and when, in 1850, the Minerva Academy at Groningen gave out “Roses and Dahlias” as a subject, and offered a prize of a little more than ten dollars for the best example, he encouraged Gerardina to enter the contest.  She received the contemptible reward, and found, to her astonishment, that the Minerva Academy considered the picture as belonging to them.

However, this affair brought the name of the artist to the knowledge of the public, and she determined to devote herself to the painting of flowers and fruit, in which she has won unusual fame.  There is no sameness in her pictures, and her subjects do not appear to be “arranged”—­everything seems to have fallen into its place by chance and to be entirely natural.

Gerardina Jacoba and her brother Julius van de Sande Bakhuyzen, the landscape painter, share one studio.  She paints with rapidity, as one must in order to picture the freshness of fast-fading flowers.