Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D Part 17

DINA, ELISA. A Venetian figure and portrait painter. Is known through the pictures she has shown at many Italian exhibitions. At Venice, in 1881, she exhibited a graceful, well-executed work called "Caldanino della Nonna." "Di Ritorno dalla Chiesa" appeared at Milan in the same year. The latter, which represented a charming young girl coming out of church, prayer-book in hand, is full of sentiment. She sent to Turin, in 1884, "Popolana," which was much admired. Her portraits are said to be exceedingly life-like.

DRINGLINGER, SOPHIE FRIEDERICKE. Born in Dresden, 1736; died 1791.

Pupil of Oeser in Leipzig. In the Dresden Gallery are seven miniatures by her of different members of the Dringlinger family. The head of this house was John Melchior Dringlinger, court jeweller of Augustus the Strong.

DUBOURG, VICTORIA--MME. FANTIN-LATOUR. Honorable mention, Paris Salon, 1894; medal third cla.s.s, 1895; picture in Gallery of Luxembourg, 1903. Member of the Societe des Artistes Francais. Born in Paris, 1840.

Studies made at the Museum of the Louvre.

Mme. Dubourg has exhibited her works at the Salons regularly since 1868, and her pictures are now seen in the Museums of Gren.o.ble and Pau, as well as in many private collections. Her subjects are of still life.

At the Salon of the Artistes Francais, in 1902, Mme. Dubourg exhibited a "Basket of Flowers."

DUBRAY, CHARLOTTE GABRIELLE. Born at Paris, and was the pupil of her father, Gabriel Vital-Dubray. In 1874 she exhibited at the Salon a marble bust of a "Fellah Girl of Cairo"; in 1875, a silvered bronze bust called the "Study of a Head," in the manner of Florence, sixteenth century; in 1876, "The Daughter of Jephthah Weeping on the Mountain," a plaster statue, a bust in bronze, and "A Neapolitan"; in 1877, "The Coquette," a bust in terra-cotta, and a portrait bust, in bronze, of M. B.

DUCOUDRAY, MLLE. M. Honorable mention, 1898; honorable mention, Paris Exposition, 1900. At the Salon des Artistes Francais, in 1902, this sculptor exhibited "Mon Maitre Zacharie Astruc," and in 1903, "En Bretagne."

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DUFAU, CLeMENTINE HeLeNE. Awards from the Salon, Bashkirtseff prize, 1895; medal third cla.s.s, 1897; travelling purse, 1898; medal second cla.s.s, 1902; Hors Concours; silver medal, Paris Exposition, 1900. Picture in the Luxembourg, 1902. Member of the Societe des Artistes Francais and of the Societa Heleno Latina, Rome. Born at Quinsac (Gironde).

Studies made at Julian Academy, under Bouguereau and Robert-Fleury. Mlle.

Dufau calls her works ill.u.s.trations and posters, and gives the following as the princ.i.p.al examples:

"Fils des Mariniers," in Museum of Cognac; "Rhythme," "Dryades,"

"Automne," a study, Manzi collection; "Espagne," "ete," Behourd collection; "Automne," Gallery of the Luxembourg. The latter is a decorative work of rare interest. At the Salon of 1903 Mlle. Dufau exhibited two works--"La grande Voix" and "Une Partie de Pelotte, au Pays basque." The latter was purchased by the Government, and will be hung in the Luxembourg.

DUHEM, MARIE. Officer of the Academy, 1895; member of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts; medal at the Paris Exposition, 1900; diploma of honor at Exposition of Women Artists, London, 1900. Born at Guemps (Pas-de-Calais). Has had no masters, has studied and worked by herself.

Her pictures are in several museums: "The Communicants," at Cambrai; "Easter Eve," at Calais; "Death of a White Sister," at Arras, etc. The picture of St. Francis of a.s.sisi was exhibited at the Salon of the Beaux-Arts, 1903. The saint, with a large aureole, is standing in the midst of a desolate landscape; his left hand raised, as if speaking--perhaps to some living thing, though nothing is revealed in the reproduction in the ill.u.s.trated catalogue of the Salon.

The other exhibits by Mme. Duhem are flower pictures--jonquils and oranges, chrysanthemums and roses. In 1902 she exhibited "The House with Laurels" in water-colors, and in oils "The High Road" and "The Orison."

The first is a scene at nightfall and is rendered with great delicacy and refinement.

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 d.u.c.h.ess 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 Zen.o.bi" 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 d.u.c.h.eSSE. Honorable mention, Paris Salon, 1889. Born in Paris, 1847. Pupil of Bonna.s.sieux and Falguiere. The princ.i.p.al 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 compet.i.tion 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 d.u.c.h.esse 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.

This artist exhibits in the United States as well as in the chief cities of England, and has held private exhibitions in Graves' Galleries. In 1902 her princ.i.p.al work was "British Hounds and Gun-Dogs." Many of her pictures have been engraved and published in both England and the United States. Among them are the last-named picture, "Four by Honors," "The Absent-Minded Beggar," and "What We Have We'll Hold."

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EGLOFFSTEIN, COUNTESS JULIA. Born at Hildesheim. 1786-1868. This painter of portraits and genre subjects belonged to a family of distinction in the north of Germany. She was a maid of honor at the court of Weimar. Her pictures were praised by Cornelius and other Munich artists. Her portrait of Goethe, in his seventy-seventh year, is in the Museum at Weimar. She also painted portraits of Queen Theresa Charlotte of Bavaria and of the Grand d.u.c.h.ess of Saxe-Weimar. Her picture of "Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert" is well known in Germany.

EGNER, MARIE. Pupil of Schindler in Vienna. She has exhibited her pictures at the exhibitions of the Vienna Water-Color Club. In 1890 an exquisite series of landscapes and flowers, in 1894 "A Mill in Upper Austria," in gouache, and in 1895 other work in the same medium, confirming previous impressions of her fine artistic ability.

EISENSTEIN, ROSA VON. Born in Vienna, 1844. This artist is one of the few Austrian women artists who made all her studies in her native city. She was a pupil of Mme. Wisinger-Florian, Schilcher, C. Probst, and Rudolf Huber. Her pictures are of still-life. She is especially fond of painting birds and is successful in this branch of her art.

ELLENRIEDER, ANNA MARIE. Born at Constance. 1791-1863. A pupil of Einsle, a miniaturist, and later of Langer, in Munich. In Rome, where this artist spent several years, she became a disciple of Overbeck.

Returning to Switzerland, she received the appointment of Court painter at Baden in 1829.

Her works are portraits and pictures of historical subjects, many of the latter being Biblical scenes. Among her best works are the "Martyrdom of Saint Stephen," in the Catholic church at Carlsruhe; a "Saint Cecilia," a "Madonna," and "Mary with the Christ-Child Leaving the Throne of Heaven"

are in the Carlsruhe Gallery. "Christ Blessing Little Children" is in the church at Coburg. Among her other works are "John Writing his Revelation at Patmos," "Peter Awaking Tabitha," and "Simeon in the Temple."

Her religious subjects sometimes verge on the sentimental, but are of great sweetness, purity, and tenderness. She was happier in her figures of women than in those of men. She also made etchings of portraits and religious subjects in the manner of G. F. Schmidt.