BAUERLE, MISS A.

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BAXTER, MARTHA WHEELER.

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BEALE, MARY. 1632-97.  This artist was the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Cradock.  She married Mr. Beale, an artist and a color-maker.  She studied under Sir Peter Lely, who obtained for her the privilege of copying some of Vandyck’s most famous works.

Mrs. Beale’s portraits of Charles II., Cowley, and the Duke of Norfolk are in the National Portrait Gallery, London, and that of Archbishop Tillotson is in Lambeth Palace.  This portrait was the first example of an ecclesiastic represented as wearing a wig instead of the usual silk coif.

Her drawing was excellent and spirited, her color strong and pure, and her portraits were sought by many distinguished persons.

Several poems were written in praise of this artist, in one of which, by Dr. Woodfall, she is called “Belasia.”  Her husband, Charles Beale, an inferior artist, was proud of his wife, and spent much time in recording the visits she received, the praises lavished on her, and similar matters concerning her art and life.  He left more than thirty pocket-notebooks filled with these records, and showed himself far more content that his wife should be appreciated than any praise of himself could have made him.

BEAURY-SAUREL, MME. AMELIE. Prize of honor at Exposition of Black and White, 1891; third-class medal, Salon, 1883; bronze medal, Exposition, 1889.  Born at Barcelona, of French parents.  Pupil of Julian Academy.  Among her principal portraits are those of Leon Say, Felix Voisin, Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire, Mme. Sadi-Carnot, Coralie Cohen, Princess Ghika, etc.  She has also painted the “Two Vanquished Ones,” “A Woman Physician,” and a “Souvenir of a Bull-Fight,” pastel, etc.

This artist has also contributed to several magazines.  At the Salon of the Artistes Francais, 1902, she exhibited a portrait and a picture of “Hamlet”; in 1903 a picture, “In the Train.”  Mme. Beaury-Saurel is also Mme. Julian, wife of the head of the Academy in which she was educated.

BEAUX, CECILIA. Mary Smith prize at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1885, 1887, 1891, 1892; gold medal, Philadelphia Art Club, 1893; Dodge prize, National Academy of Design, 1893; bronze medal, Carnegie Institute, 1896; first-class gold medal, $1,500, Carnegie Institute, 1899; Temple gold medal, Pennsylvania Academy, 1900; gold medal, Paris Exposition, 1900; gold medal, (?) 1901.  Associate of National Academy of Design, member of Society of American Artists, associate of Societe des Beaux-Arts, Paris.  Born in Philadelphia.  Studied under Mrs. T. A. Janvier, Adolf van der Weilen, and William Sartain in Philadelphia; under Robert-Fleury, Bouguereau, and Benjamin-Constant, in Paris.