BLAU, TINA. Honorable mention in Paris, 1883, for her “Spring in the Prater.”  Her “Land Party” is in the possession of the Emperor of Austria, and “In Spring-time” belongs to the Prince Regent of Bavaria.  This talented landscape painter was born in Vienna, 1847.  She was a pupil of Schaeffer in Vienna, and of W. Lindenschmitt in Munich.  After travelling in Austria, Holland, and Italy, she followed her predilection for landscape, and chose her themes in great part from those countries.  In 1884 she married Heinrich Lang, painter of battle scenes (who died in 1891), and she now works alternately in Munich and Vienna.  In 1890 she gave an exhibition of her pictures in Munich; they were thought to show great vigor of composition and color and much delicacy of artistic perception.  Her foreign scenes, especially, are characterized by unusual local truth and color.  Among her best works are “Studies from the Prater in Vienna,” “Canal at Amsterdam,” “Harvest Day in Holland,” “The Arch of Titus in Rome,” “Street in Venice,” and “Late Summer.”

BLOCH, MME. ELISA. Honorable mention, 1894.  Officer of public instruction, Commander of the Order of the Liberator; Chevalier of the Order of the Dragon of Annam.  Born at Breslau, Silesia, 1848.  Pupil of Chapu.  She first exhibited at the Salon of 1878, a medallion portrait of M. Bloch; this was followed by “Hope,” the “Golden Age,” “Virginius Sacrificing his Daughter,” “Moses Receiving the Tables of the Law,” etc.  Mme. Bloch has made numerous portrait busts, among them being the kings of Spain and Portugal, Buffalo Bill, C. Flammarion, etc.

At the Salon of the Artistes Francais, 1903, Mme. Bloch exhibited a “Portrait of M. Frederic Passy, Member of the Institute.”

BOCCARDO, LINA ZERBINAH. Rome.

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BOEMM, RITTA. A Hungarian artist.  Has been much talked of in Dresden.  She certainly possesses distinguished talents, and is easily in the front rank of Dresden women artists.  Her gouache pictures dealing with Hungarian subjects, a “Village Street,” a “Peasant Farm,” a “Churchyard,” exhibited at Dresden in 1892, were well drawn and full of sentiment, but lacking in color sense and power.  She works unevenly and seems pleased when she succeeds in setting a scene cleverly.  She paints portraits also, mostly in pastel, which are spirited, but not especially good likenesses.  What she can do in the way of color may be seen in her “Village Street in Winter,” a picture of moderate size, in which the light is exquisite; unfortunately most of her painting is less admirable than this.

BOISSONNAS, MME. CAROLINE SORDET. Honorable mention at the Salon of Lyons, 1897.  Member of the Exposition Permanente Amis des Beaux-Arts, Geneva.  Born in Geneva.  Pupil of the School of Fine Arts, Geneva, under Prof.  F. Gillet and M. E. Ravel.

This artist paints portraits principally.  She has been successful, and her pictures are in Geneva, Lausanne, Vevey, Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, Dresden, Naples, etc.