COLLAERT, MARIE. Born in Brussels, 1842.  Is called the Flemish Rosa Bonheur and the Muse of Belgian landscape.  Her pictures of country life are most attractive.  Her powerful handling of her brush is modified by a tender, feminine sentiment.

I quote from the “History of Modern Painters”:  “In Marie Collaert’s pictures may be found quiet nooks beneath clear sky-green stretches of grass where the cows are at pasture in idyllic peace.  Here is to be found the cheery freshness of country life.”

COMAN, CHARLOTTE B. Bronze medal, California Mid-Winter Exposition, 1894.  Member of New York Water-Color Club.  Born in Waterville, N. Y. Pupil of J. R. Brevoort in America, of Harry Thompson and Emile Vernier in Paris.  This artist has painted landscapes, and sent to the Philadelphia Exposition in 1876 “A French Village”; to the Paris Exposition, 1878, “Near Fontainebleau.”  In 1877 and 1878 she exhibited in Boston, “On the Borders of the Marne” and “Peasant House in Normandy.”

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COMERRE-PATON, MME. JACQUELINE. Honorable mention, 1881; medal at Versailles; officer of the Academy.  Born at Paris, 1859.  Pupil of Cabanel.  Her principal works are:  “Peau d’Ane, Hollandaise,” in the Museum of Lille; “Song of the Wood,” Museum of Morlaix; “Mignon,” portrait of Mlle. Ugalde; the “Haymaker,” etc.

COOKESLEY, MARGARET MURRAY. Decorated by the Sultan of Turkey with the Order of the Chefakat, and with the Medaille des Beaux Arts, also a Turkish honor.  Medal for the “Lion Tamers in the Time of Nero.”  Member of the Empress Club.  Born in Dorsetshire.  Studied in Brussels under Leroy and Gallais, and spent a year at South Kensington in the study of anatomy.  Mrs. Cookesley has lived in Newfoundland and in San Francisco.  A visit to Constantinople brought her a commission to paint a portrait of the son of the Sultan.  No sittings were accorded her, the Sultan thinking a photograph sufficient for the artist to work from.  Fortunately Mrs. Cookesley was able to make a sketch of her subject while following the royal carriage in which he was riding.  The portrait proved so satisfactory to the Sultan that he not only decorated the artist, but invited her to make portraits of some of his wives, for which Mrs. Cookesley had not time.  Her pictures of Oriental subjects have been successful.  Among these are:  “An Arab Cafe in the Slums of Cairo,” much noticed in the Academy Exhibition of 1895; “Noon at Ramazan,” “The Snake-Charmer,” “Umbrellas to Mend—­Damascus,” and a group of the “Soudanese Friends of Gordon.”  Her “Priestess of Isis” is owned in Cairo.

Among her pictures of Western subjects are “The Puritan’s Daughter,” “Deliver Us from Evil,” “The Gambler’s Wife.”  “Widowed” and “Miss Calhoun as Salome” were purchased by Maclean, of the Haymarket Theatre; “Death of the First-Born” is owned in Russia; and “Portrait of Ellen Terry as Imogen” is in a private collection.