Part 46 (1/2)

SUES, MLLE. LEA. Three silver medals from the School of Arts, Geneva; diploma of honor at the National Swiss Exposition, 1896. Member of l'Athenee, Geneva. Born at Genoa and studied there under Professors Gillet, Poggy, and Castan.

This artist paints landscapes, Swiss subjects princ.i.p.ally. Her pictures of Mont Blanc and Chamounix are popular and have been readily sold. They are in private collections in several countries, and when exhibited have been praised in German and French as well as in Swiss publications.

SYAMOUR, MME. MARGUERITE. Honorable mention, 1887; bronze medal at Exposition at Lyons. Born at Brery, 1861. Pupil of Mercie. Her princ.i.p.al works are a plaster statue, ”New France,” 1886, in the Museum of Issoudun; a statue of Voltaire; a plaster statue, ”Life”; a plaster group, the ”Last Farewells”; a statue of ”Diana,” in the Museum of Amiens; a great number of portrait busts, among them those of Jules Grevy, Flammarion, J. Claretie, etc.

At the Salon, Artistes Francais, 1902, this artist exhibited a ”Portrait of M. G. L.,” and in 1904 ”A Vision” and ”La Dame aux Camelias.”

TAYLOR, ELIZABETH V. Sears prize, Boston Art Museum; bronze medal, Nashville Exposition, 1897. Member of the Copley Society, Boston. Pupil of E. C. Tarbell and Joseph de Camp in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

This artist paints portraits in miniature and in life size. Her works are numerous and have been seen in many exhibitions.

THAULOW, MME. ALEXANDRA. Wife of the great Scandinavian painter.

This lady is an artist in bookbinding and her work is much admired. A writer, H. F., says, in the _Studio_, December, 1903: ”When the exhibition of bookbinding was held some time ago at the Musee Galliera, Madame Thaulow's showcase attracted attention by its variety and its grace. The charm of these bindings lies in the fact that they have none of the ma.s.sive heaviness of so many productions of this kind. One should be able to handle a book with ease, and not be forced to rest content with beholding it displaying its beauties behind gla.s.s or on the library shelf; and Madame Thaulow understood this perfectly when she executed the bindings now reproduced here. But these bindings are interesting not only from the standpoint of their utility and intelligent application; their ornamentation delights one by its graceful interpretation of Nature, rendered with a very special sense of decoration; moreover, the coloring of these mosaics of leather is restrained and fresh, and the hollyhocks and the hortensias, the bunches of mistletoe and the poppies, which form some of her favorite _motifs_, go to make up a delicious symphony.”

THEVENIN, MARIE ANNE ROSALIE. Medals at the Salons of 1849, 1859, 1861. Born at Lyons. Pupil of Leon Cogniet. Portrait and figure painter.

Among her pictures the following are noticeable: ”Flora McIvor and Rose Bradwardine,” 1848; ”Portrait of Abbe Jacquet,” 1859; ”Portrait of a Lady,” 1861.

THOMAS-SOYER, MME. MATHILDE. Honorable mention, 1880; third-cla.s.s medal, 1881; bronze medal, Exposition, 1889. Born at Troyes, 1859. Pupil of Chapu and Cain. The princ.i.p.al works of this sculptor are: ”A Russian Horse”; ”Lost Dogs”; ”Russian Greyhounds”; ”Huntsmen and a Poacher,” in the Museum of Semur; ”Combat of Dogs,” purchased by the Government; ”Cow and Calf,” in the Museum of Nevers; ”Stag and Bloodhound,” in the Museum of Troyes, etc.

At the Salon, Artistes Francais, 1902, Mme. Thomas-Soyer exhibited ”An Irish Setter and a Laverock,” and in 1903 ”Under the White Squall.”

Th.o.r.n.yCROFT, MARY. Born 1814; died 1895. Daughter of John Francis, the sculptor, whose pupil she was. This artist exhibited at the Royal Academy when very young. Her first important work was a life-size figure called ”The Flower-Girl.” In 1840 she married Thomas Th.o.r.n.ycroft, and went to Rome two years later, spending a year in study there. Queen Victoria, after her return, commissioned her to execute statues of the royal children as the Four Seasons. These were much admired when exhibited at the Academy. Later she made portrait statues and busts of many members of the royal family, which were also seen at the Academy Exhibition.

In his ”Essays on Art,” Palgrave wrote: ”Sculpture has at no time numbered many successful followers among women. We have, however, in Mrs.

Th.o.r.n.ycroft, one such artist who, by some recent advance and by the degrees of success which she has already reached, promises fairly for the art. Some of this lady's busts have refinement and feeling.”

THURBER, CAROLINE NETTLETON. Born in Oberlin, Ohio. Pupil of Howard Helmick in Was.h.i.+ngton, and of Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul Laurens in Paris.

In 1898 Mrs. Thurber took a studio in Paris, where her first work was the portrait of a young violinist, which was exhibited in the Salon of the following spring. This picture met with immediate favor with the public, the art critics, and the press. The d.u.c.h.ess of Sutherland, upon seeing it, sent for the artist and arranged for a portrait of her daughter, which was painted the following autumn while Mrs. Thurber was a guest at Dunrobin Castle. This portrait was subsequently exhibited in London and Liverpool.

Mrs. Thurber has painted portraits of many persons of distinction in Paris, among them one of Mlle. Ollivier, only daughter of emile Ollivier, president of the Academie Francaise. Monsieur Ollivier, in a personal note to the artist, made the following comment upon the portrait of his daughter: ”How much I thank you for the portrait of my daughter; it lives, so powerfully is it colored, and one is tempted to speak to it.”

Mrs. Thurber is an exhibitor in the Salon, Royal Academy, and New Gallery, London, and other foreign exhibitions, as well as in those of this country.

She now has a studio in the family home at Bristol, Rhode Island, on Narragansett Bay, where she works during half the year. In winter she divides her time among the larger cities as her orders demand. While Mrs.

Thurber's name is well known through her special success in the portraiture of children, she has painted many prominent men and women in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Was.h.i.+ngton, and New England.