DUPRE, AMALIA. Corresponding member of the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, and of the Academy of Perugia.  Born in Florence, 1845.  Pupil of her father, Giovanni Dupre, who detected her artistic promise in her childish attempts at modelling.  She has executed a number of notable sepulchral monuments, one for Adele Stiacchi; one for the daughter of the Duchess Ravaschieri, in Naples, which represents the “Madonna Receiving an Angel in her Arms”; it is praised for its subject and for the action of the figures.  “A Sister of Charity” for the tomb of the Cavaliere Aleotti is her work, and for the tomb of her parents, at Fiesole, she reproduced “La Pieta,” one of her father’s most famous sculptures.

For the facade of the Florence Cathedral she made a statue of “Saint Reparata,” and finished the “San Zenobi” which her father did not live to complete.

She has a wide reputation in Italy for her statues of the “Young Giotto,” “St. Peter in Prison,” and “San Giuseppe Calasanzio.”

DURANT, SUSAN D. This English sculptor was educated in Paris, and died there in 1873.  She first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1847.  She was the teacher of the Princess Louise, and executed medallion portraits and busts of many members of the royal family of England.  Her works were constantly exhibited at the Royal Academy.  The Art Journal, March, 1873, spoke of her as “one of our most accomplished female sculptors.”  Her bust of Queen Victoria is in the Middle Temple, London; the “Faithful Shepherdess,” an ideal figure, executed for the Corporation of London, is in the Mansion House.  Among her other works are “Ruth,” a bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and a monument to the King of Belgium, at Windsor.

D’UZES, MME. LA DUCHESSE. Honorable mention, Paris Salon, 1889.  Born in Paris, 1847.  Pupil of Bonnassieux and Falguiere.  The principal works of this artist are “Diana Surprised,” in marble; “Saint Hubert,” in the church of the Sacre-Coeur; the same subject for a church in Canada; “The Virgin,” a commission from the Government, in the church at Poissy; “Jeanne d’Arc,” at Mousson; the monument to Emile Augier, the commission for which was obtained in a competition with other sculptors; and many busts and statuettes.

In the spring of 1903, at the twenty-second exhibition of the Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Duchesse d’Uzes exhibited a large statue of the Virgin which is to be erected in the church of St. Clothilde.  It is correct anatomically and moulded with great delicacy.

EARL, MAUD. A painter of animals, whose “Early Morning” was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1885, and has been followed by “In the Drifts,” “Old Benchers,” “A Cry for Help,” etc.  In 1900 she exhibited “The Dogs of Death”; in 1901, “On Dian’s Day.”

Miss Earl has painted portraits of many dogs on the Continent and in Great Britain, notably those belonging to Queen Victoria and to the present King and Queen.