We cannot now point to any pictures as exclusively hers, as she worked in concert with her brothers.  It is, however, positively known that a portion of an exquisite Breviary, in the Imperial Library in Paris, was painted by Margaretha, and that she illustrated other precious and costly manuscripts.

She was held in high esteem in Bruges and was honored in Ghent by burial in the Church of St. Bavo, where Hubert van Eyck had been interred.  Karl van Mander, an early writer on Flemish art, was poetically enthusiastic in praise of Margaretha, calling her “a gifted Minerva, who spurned Hymen and Lucina, and lived in single blessedness.”

A Madonna in the National Gallery in London is attributed to Margaretha van Eyck.

FACIUS, ANGELIKA. Born at Weimar. 1806-87.  This artist was distinguished as an engraver of medals and gems.  Pupil of her father, Friedrich Wilhelm Facius.  Goethe recommended her to Rauch, and in 1827 she went to Berlin to study in his studio.  Under her father’s instruction she engraved the medal for the celebration at Weimar, 1825, of the jubilee of the Grand Duke Charles Augustus.  Under Rauch’s direction she executed the medal to commemorate the duke’s death.  In 1841 she made the medal for the convention of naturalists at Jena.

After Neher’s designs, she modelled reliefs for the bronze doors at the castle of Weimar.

FARNCOMB, CAROLINE. Several first prizes in exhibitions in London, Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa.  Member of Women’s Art Club, London, Ontario.  Born near Toronto, Canada.  Pupil of Mr. Judson and Mlle. van den Broeck in London, Canada, and later of William Chase in New York.  Now studying in Paris.

FASSETT, CORNELIA ADELE. 1831-1898.  Member of the Chicago Academy of Design and the Washington Art Club.  Born in Owasco, New York.  Studied water-color painting in New York under an English artist, J. B. Wandesforde.  Pupil in Paris of Castiglione, La Tour, and Mathieu.  Her artistic life was spent in Chicago and Washington, D. C.

She painted numerous portraits in miniature and a large number in oils.  Among those painted from life were Presidents Grant, Hayes, and Garfield; Vice-President Henry Wilson; Charles Foster, when Governor of Ohio, now in the State House at Columbus, Ohio; Dr. Rankin, president of Howard University, Washington; and many other prominent people of Chicago and Washington.

Her chief work and that by which she is best remembered hangs in the Senate wing of the United States Capitol.  No picture in the Capitol attracts more attention, and large numbers of people view it daily.  It is the “Electoral Commission in Open Session.”  It represents the old Senate Chamber, now the Supreme Court Room, with William M. Evarts making the opening argument.  There are two hundred and fifty-eight portraits of notable men and women, prominent in political, literary, scientific, and social circles.  Many of these were painted from life.