Johan Gram writes of her:  “If she paints a basket of peaches or plums, they look as if just picked by the gardener and placed upon the table, without any thought of studied effect; some leaves covering the fruit, others falling out of the basket in the most natural way.  If she paints the branch of a rose-tree, it seems to spring from the ground with its flowers in all their luxurious wantonness, and one can almost imagine one’s self inhaling their delightful perfume.  This talented artist knows so well how to depict with her brush the transparency and softness of the tender, ethereal rose, that one may seek in vain among a crowd of artists for her equal....  The paintings are all bright and sunny, and we are filled with enthusiasm when gazing at her powerful works.”

This artist was born in 1826 and died in 1895.  She lived and died in her family residence.  In 1850, at Groningen, she took for her motto, “Be true to nature and you will produce that which is good.”  To this she remained faithful all her days.

BALDWIN, EDITH ELLA. Born at Worcester, Massachusetts.  Studied in Paris at Julian Academy, under Bouguereau and Robert-Fleury; at the Colarossi studios under Courtois, also under Julius Rolshoven and Mosler.

Paints portraits and miniatures.  At the Salon of the Champ de Mars she exhibited a portrait in pastel, in 1901; at exhibitions of the Society of American Artists in 1898 and 1899 she exhibited miniatures; also pictures in oils at Worcester, 1903.

BALL, CAROLINE PEDDLE. Honorable mention at Paris Exhibition, 1900.  Member of the Guild of Arts and Crafts and of Art Students’ League.  Born at Terre Haute, Indiana.  Pupil at the Art Students’ League, under Augustus St. Gaudens and Kenyon Cox.

This sculptor exhibited at Paris a Bronze Clock.  She designed for the Tiffany Glass Company the figure of the Young Virgin and that of the Christ of the Sacred Heart.

A memorial fountain at Flushing, Long Island, a medallion portrait of Miss Cox of Terre Haute, a monument to a child in the same city, a Victory in a quadriga, seen on the United States Building, Paris, 1900, and also at the Buffalo Exhibition, 1901, are among her important works.

BANUELOS, ANTONIA. At the Paris Exposition of 1878 several portraits by this artist attracted attention, one of them being a portrait of herself.  At the Exposition of 1880 she exhibited “A Guitar Player.”

BARRANTES MANUEL DE ARAGON, MARIA DEL CARMEN. Member of the Academy of San Fernando, Madrid, 1816.  This institution possesses a drawing by her of the “Virgin with the Christ-Child” and a portrait in oil of a person of the epoch of Charles III.