were successful.  Miss Brewster, who lived in Rome, was an excellent critic, and she wrote:  “I must say a few words about a studio I have lately visited—­Miss Boott’s.  I saw there three very fine portraits, remarkable for strength and character, as well as rich coloring:  one of Mr. Boott, one of Bishop Say, and the third of T. Adolphus Trollope, the well-known writer and brother of the novelist, Anthony Trollope.  All are good likenesses and are painted with vigor and skill, but the one of Mr. Trollope is especially clever.  Trollope’s head and face, though a good study, are not easy to paint, but Miss Boott has succeeded to perfection.  His head and beard are very fine.  The face in nature, but for the melancholy, kindly look about the eyes and mouth, would be stern; Miss Boott has caught this expression and yet retained all the firm character of the countenance.  It is remarkable that an artist who paints male heads with such a vigorous character should also give to flowers softness, transparency, and grace.  Nothing can be more lovely than Miss Boott’s flower studies.  She has some delicious poppies among wheat, lilies, thistles.  She gets a transparency into these works that is not facile in oil.  A bunch of roses in a vase was as tender and round and soft-colored as in nature.  Among all the many studios of Rome I do not know a more attractive one than Miss Boott’s.”

BORTOLAN, ROSA. Born at Treviso.  She was placed in the Academy at Venice by her family, where she had the benefit of such masters as Grigoletti, Lipparini, Schiavoni, and Zandomeneghi.  She early showed much originality, and after making thorough preliminary studies she began to follow her own ideas.  She was of a mystical and contemplative turn of mind, and a great proportion of her work has been of a religious nature.  Her pictures began to attract attention about 1847, and she had many commissions for altar-pieces and similar work.  The church of Valdobbiadene, at Venice, contains “San Venanziano Fortunatus, Bishop.”  “Saint Louis” was painted as a commission of Brandolin da Pieve; “Comte Justinian Replying to Bonaparte in Treviso” was a subscription picture presented to Signor Zoccoletto.  Portraits of the Countess Canossa-Portalupi and her son, of Luigia Codemo, and of Luigi Giacomelli are thought to possess great merit; while those of Dr. Pasquali (in the Picture Gallery at Treviso) and Michelangelo Codemo have been judged superior to those of Rosalba Carriera and Angelica Kauffmann.  Her sacred pictures, strong and good in color, are full of a mystical and spiritual beauty.  Her drawing is admirable and her treatment of detail highly finished.

BORZINO, LEOPOLDINA. Milanese water-color painter.  Has shown excellent genre pictures at various exhibitions.  “The Holiday” and the “Return from Mass” were both exhibited and sold at Rome in 1883; “The Way to Calvary” was seen at Venice in 1887.  “The Rosary,” “Anguish,” and “Going to the Fountain” are all distinguished by good color as well as by grace and originality of composition.