CHARRETIE, ANNA MARIA. 1819-75.  Her first exhibitions at the Royal Academy, London, were miniatures and flower pieces.  Later she painted portraits and figure subjects, as well as flowers.  In 1872 “Lady Betty Germain” was greatly admired for the grace of the figure and the exquisite finish of the details.  In 1873 she exhibited “Lady Betty’s Maid” and “Lady Betty Shopping.”  “Lady Teazle Behind the Screen” was dated 1871, and “Mistress of Herself tho’ China Fall” was painted and exhibited in the last year of her life.

CHASE, ADELAIDE COLE. Member of Art Students’ Association.  Born in Boston.  Daughter of J. Foxcroft Cole.  Studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, under Tarbell, and also under Jean Paul Laurens and Carolus Duran in Paris; and with Vinton in Boston.

Mrs. Chase has painted portraits entirely, most of which are in or near Boston; her artistic reputation among painters of her own specialty is excellent, and her portraits are interesting aside from the persons represented, when considered purely as works of art.

[Illustration:  From a Copley Print.

A PORTRAIT

ADELAIDE COLE CHASE]

A portrait called a “Woman with a Muff,” exhibited recently at the exhibition of the Society of American Artists, in New York, was much admired.  At the 1904 exhibition of the Philadelphia Academy Mrs. Chase exhibited a portrait of children, Constance and Gordon Worcester, of which Arthur Hoeber writes:  “She has painted them easily, with deftness and feeling, and apparently caught their character and the delicacy of infancy.”

CHAUCHET, CHARLOTTE. Honorable mention at the Salon, 1901; third-class medal, 1902.  Member of the Societe des Artistes Francais and of l’Union des femmes peintres et sculpteurs.  Born at Charleville, Ardennes, in 1878.  Pupil of Gabriel Thurner, Benjamin-Constant, Jean Paul Laurens, and Victor Marec.  Her principal works are “Maree”—­Fish—­1899, purchased for the lottery of the International Exposition at Lille; “Breton Interior,” purchased by the Society of the Friends of the Arts, at Nantes; “Mother Closmadenc Dressing Fish,” in the Museum of Brest; “Interior of a Kitchen at Mont,” purchased by the Government; “Portrait of my Grandmother,” which obtained honorable mention; “At the Corner of the Fire,” “A Little Girl in the Open Air,” medal of third class.

The works of Mlle. Chauchet have been much praised.  The Petit Moniteur, June, 1899, says:  “Mlle. Chauchet, a very young girl, in her picture of a ‘Breton Interior’ shows a vigor and decision very rare in a woman.”  Of the “Maree,” the Depeche de Brest says:  “On a sombre background, in artistic disorder, thrown pell-mell on the ground, are baskets and a shining copper kettle, with a mass of fish of all sorts, of varied forms, and changing colors.  All well painted.  Such is the picture by Mlle. Chauchet.”