Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D Part 23

GUNTHER-AMBERG, JULIE. Born in Berlin, 1855. Daughter and pupil of Wilhelm Amberg; later she studied under Gussow. She painted attractive scenes of domestic life, the setting for these works often representing a landscape characteristic of the sh.o.r.e of the Baltic Sea. Among these pictures are "Schurr-Meer," "The Village Coquette," "Sunday Afternoon,"

"At the Garden Gate," and "Harvest Day in Misdroy." In 1886 this artist married Dr. Gunther, of Berlin.

GUYON, MAXIMILIeNNE. Medal of third cla.s.s, Paris salon, 1888; honorable mention and medal of third cla.s.s at Exposition Universelle, 1889; travelling purse, 1894--first woman to whom the purse was given; bronze medal, Paris Exposition, 1900; gold medal at Exposition of Black and White, Paris; medal in silver-gilt at Amiens. Mme. Guyon is hors concours at Lyons, Versailles, Rouen, etc. Member of the Societe des Artistes Francais, Societe des Aquarellistes Francais, and of the Societe des Prix du Salon et Boursiers de Voyage. Born at Paris. Pupil of the Julian Academy under Robert-Fleury, Jules Lefebvre, and Gustave Boulanger.

Mme. Guyon is a successful portrait painter, and her works are numerous.

Among her pictures of another sort are the "Violinist" and "The River."

In the Salon des Artistes Francais, 1902, she exhibited two portraits. In 1903 she exhibited "Mending of the Fish Nets, a scene in Brittany," and "A Study." The net-menders are three peasant women, seated on the sh.o.r.e, with a large net thrown across their laps, all looking down and working busily. They wear the white Breton caps, and but for these--in the reproduction that I have--it seems a gloomy picture; but one cannot judge of color from the black and white. The net is well done, as are the hands, and the whole work is true to the character of such a scene in the country of these hard-working women.

Mme. Guyon is much esteemed as a teacher. She has been an instructor and adviser to the Princess Mathilde, and has had many young ladies in her cla.s.ses.

In her portraits she succeeds in revealing the individual characteristics of her subjects and bringing out that which is sometimes a revelation to themselves in a p.r.o.nounced manner. Is not this the key to the charm of her works?

HAANEN, ELIZABETH ALIDA--MME. KIERS. Member of the Academy of Amsterdam, 1838. Born in Utrecht. 1809-1845. Pupil of her brother, Georg G. van Haanen. The genre pictures by this artist are admirable. "A Dutch Peasant Woman" and "The Midday Prayer of an Aged Couple" are excellent examples of her art and have been made familiar through reproductions.

HALE, ELLEN DAY. Medal at exhibition of Mechanics' Charitable a.s.sociation. Born in Worcester, Ma.s.sachusetts. Pupil of William M. Hart and of Dr. Rimmer, in Boston, and of the Julian Academy, Paris.

Her princ.i.p.al works are decorative. The "Nativity" is in the South Congregational Church, Boston; "Military Music," decorative, is in Philadelphia. She also paints figure subjects.

HALLOWELL, MAY. See Loud.

HALSE, EMMELINE. This artist, when in the Royal Academy Schools, was awarded two silver medals and a prize of 30. Her works have been accepted at the Academy Exhibitions since 1888, and occasionally she has sent them to the Paris Salons. Born in London. Studied under Sir Frederick Leighton, at Academy Schools, and in Paris under M. Bogino.

Miss Halse executed the reredos in St. John's Church, Notting Hill, London; a terra-cotta relief called "Earthward Board" (?) is in St.

Bartholomew's Hospital, London; a relief, the "Pleiades," was purchased by the Corporation of Glasgow for the Permanent Exhibition; her restoration of the "Hermes" was placed in the British Museum beside the cast from the original.

This artist has made many life-size studies of children, portraits in marble, plaster, and wax, in all sizes, poetical reliefs, and tiny wax figures.

HAMMOND, GERTRUDE DEMAIN. Several prizes at the School of the Royal Academy, 1886, 1887, and in 1889 the prize for decorative design; bronze medal at Paris Exposition in 1900. Member of Inst.i.tute of Painters in Water-Colors. Born at Brixton. After gaining the prize for decorative design Miss Hammond was commissioned to execute her design, in a public building. This was the third time that such a commission was given to a prize student, and the first time it was accorded to a woman.

More recently Miss Hammond has ill.u.s.trated books and magazines; in 1902 she ill.u.s.trated the "Virginians" in a new American edition of Thackeray's novels. At the Academy, 1903, she exhibited "A Reading from Plato."

HARDING, CHARLOTTE. George W. Childs gold medal at Philadelphia School of Design for Women; silver medal at Women's Exposition, London, 1900. Born in Newark, New Jersey, 1873. Pupil of Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and School of Design for Women. In the latter was awarded the Horstman fellowship. Miss Harding is an ill.u.s.trator whose works are seen in a number of the princ.i.p.al magazines.

HART, LEt.i.tIA B. Dodge prize, National Academy of Design, 1898. Born in New York, 1857. Pupil of her father, James M. Hart, and Edgar M. Ward.

Her princ.i.p.al works are "The Keepsake," "Unwinding the Skein," "In Silk Attire," and "The Bride's Bouquet."

HAVENS, BELLE. Awarded third Hallgarten prize at National Academy of Design, winter of 1903. Born in Franklin County, Ohio. Studied at Art Students' League, New York, and at Colarossi Atelier, Paris. In New York Miss Havens was directed by William Chase, and by Whistler in Paris. In Holland she studied landscape under Hitchc.o.c.k, and a picture called "Going Home" was accepted at the Salon and later exhibited at the Philadelphia Academy; it is owned by Mr. Caldwell, of Pittsburg.

Mr. Harrison N. Howard, in _Brush and Pencil_, writing of the exhibition of the National Academy of Design, says: "'Belle Havens' the 'Last Load'

is part and parcel with her other cart-and-horse compositions, commonplace and prosaic in subject, but rendered naturally and forcefully and with no small measure of atmospheric effect. The picture is not one of the winsome sort, and it doubtless makes less appeal to the spectator than any other of the prize-winners."

HAZLETON, MARY BREWSTER. First Hallgarten prize, 1896; first prize travelling scholarship, School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1899; honorable mention, Buffalo, 1901.

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HEDINGER, ELISE. Family name Neumann. Born in Berlin, 1854. Pupil of Hoguet, Hertel, and Gussow in Berlin, and of Bracht in Paris. In recent years she has exhibited in Berlin and other cities many exquisite landscapes and admirable pictures of still-life, which have been universally praised.

HEEREN, MINNA. Born in Hamburg; living in Dusseldorf. In the Gallery at Hamburg is her "Ruth and Naomi," 1854; other important works are "The Veteran of 1813 and His Grandson, Wounded in 1870," "The Little Boaster,"

"A Troubled Hour of Rest," etc.

HELENA. A Greek painter of the fourth century B. C. Daughter of Timon, an Egyptian. She executed a picture of the "Battle of Issus,"

which was exhibited in the Temple of Peace, in the time of Vespasian, 333 B. C.

HERBELIN, MME. JEANNE MATHILDE. Third-cla.s.s medal, Paris Salon, 1843; second cla.s.s, 1844; and first cla.s.s, 1847, 1848, and 1855. Born in Brunoy, 1820. A painter of miniatures. One of these works by Mme.

Herbelin was the first miniature admitted to the Luxembourg Gallery.

HEREFORD, LAURA. 1831-1870. This artist is distinguished by the fact that she was the first woman to whom the schools of the Royal Academy were opened. She became a pupil there in 1861 or 1862, and in 1864 sent to the Exhibition "A Quiet Corner"; in 1865, "Thoughtful"; in 1866, "Brother and Sister"; and in 1867, "Margaret."

HERMAN, HERMINE VON. Born in Komorn, Hungary, 1857. Studied under Darnaut in Vienna, where she made her home. She is a landscape painter and is known through her "Evening Landscape," "Spring," "Eve," and a picture of roses.

HEUSTIS, LOUISE LYONS. Member of Art Workers' Club for Women and the Art Students' League. Born in Mobile, Alabama. Pupil of Art Students'