BREWSTER, ADA AUGUSTA.

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BRICKDALE, MISS ELEANOR FORTESCUE.

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BRICCI OR BRIZIO, PLAUTILLA. Very little is known of this Roman artist of the seventeenth century, but that little marks her as an unusually gifted woman, since she was a practical architect and a painter of pictures.  She was associated with her brother in some architectural works in and near Rome, and was the only woman of her time in this profession.

She is believed to have erected a small palace near the Porta San Pancrazio, unaided by her brother, and is credited with having designed in the Church of San Luigi de’ Francesi the third chapel on the left aisle, dedicated to St. Louis, and with having also painted the altar-piece in this chapel.

BRIDGES, FIDELIA. Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1878, when but three other women were thus honored.  Born in Salem, Massachusetts.  Studied with W. T. Richards in Philadelphia, and later in Europe during one year.  She exhibited her pictures from 1869 in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.  Her subjects were landscapes and flowers.  In 1871 she first painted in water-colors, which suited many of her pictures better than oils.  She was elected a member of the Water-Color Society in 1875.  To the Philadelphia Exposition, 1876, she sent a “Kingfisher and Catkins,” a “Flock of Snow Birds,” and the “Corner of a Rye-Field.”  Of the last a writer in the Art Journal said:  “Miss Bridges’ ‘Edge of a Rye-Field,’ with a foreground of roses and weeds, is a close study, and shows that she is as happy in the handling of oil colors as in those mixed with water.”

Another critic wrote:  “Her works are like little lyric poems, and she dwells with loving touches on each of her buds, ‘like blossoms atilt’ among the leaves.”

Her pictures are in private collections, and are much valued by their owners.

BROOKS, MARIA.

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BROWNSCOMBE, JENNIE. Pupil of the National Academy and the Art Students’ League, New York, and of Henry Mosler in Paris.

Paints genre subjects, among which are:  “Love’s Young Dream,” “Colonial
Minuet,” “Sir Roger de Coverly at Carvel Hall,” “Battle of Roses,” etc.

The works of this artist have been reproduced in engravings and etchings, and are well known in black and white.  Her water-colors, too, have been published in photogravure.

Miss Brownscombe exhibits at many American exhibitions and has had her work accepted at the Royal Academy, London.

BROWNE, MATILDA. Honorable mention at Chicago, 1893; Dodge prize at National Academy of Design, 1899; Hallgarten prize, 1901.  Born in Newark, New Jersey.  Pupil of Miss Kate Greatorex; of Carleton Wiggins, New York; of the Julian Academy, Paris; of H. S. Birbing in Holland, and of Jules Dupre on the coast of France.  When a child this artist lived very near Thomas Moran and was allowed to spend much time in his studio, where she learned the use of colors.