New-York tribune., 1870-04-14
WHAT THE LADY-ARTIsTs ARE DOING.

Mrs. Greatorex is sketching the picturesque
old mansions and quaint hooks and corners along the
East River above the city Indeed she has been very
busy all Winter In that region, and has accumulated
many treasure interesting to antiquarans, both OF
story and picture. One sketchi that Of the Hopper
House. said to be the oldest house on the island hav-
ing been built $40 years ago. Mrs. Greatorex Is at
present engaged upon the old Courtney Mansion She
for Europe the 18th Of May but before t that
viii be the home Of Mime Jume She has sent to the
Academy painting OF the old house IN Hrad,eame, % &
Maid OF Honor to Marie Antolnette, and who He'd rom
the horrors the French Revolution with her three
panted by the fair hands Of the exile ard within its
walls, which were recently torn down. were I long az"
received Lafayette Louis Philippe ana others Oh ho1e
Miss Curtis is illustrating Tennyson for Fields Osgood
& Co.
rs Beers has just sent to the Academy her picture.
"Nothing but "a cool gray cross, around which
Is twned wreath Of wthered leaves 1t Is chiefly vau
able for the mental pictures 1t suggests Mrs Beers has
been painting number Of pleasant Attle bits Oh land
scape upon birch bark
Mrs. James Hart sent to the Academy two pictures,
"Bsby's Opening" and "Baby's Vase"
Mrs. Culver, who is studying with William Hart, Is
painting Lake George scenes. She will have In tho
Exhibition late afternoon effect Lake George, with
Anthonys Nose In the distance
Miss Conant Is working upon q picture called The
Motherless," churchyard scene in Germany Two
children are placing flowers upon grave In the quiet
afternoon. She has fruit piece In the Academy.
Mary L. Stone has upon the easel street scene full Of
poetic sadness and characteristic sketch OF girl and
She will have in the Exhibition painting iustra-
tive OF Elaine" The Fairy bears in her arms the little
Lanceot pacing on the dusky I'm the mist and
gloom OF the twilight Miss Stone Il busy drawing on
wood for The Riverside Magazine She is also nstrat
ing Of the poems In MOrrss Earthly Paradise"
Lily Spencer tried woman and indefatgabe artist, is
beginning the portraits OF the two daughters OF Con-
troer Connolly One canvas graced by the features OF
Mrs. Hutchings, ia called "Alone." The medtative fig
ure evening against fountain ian anque)
In conservatory, Gorgeous plants blossom about her.
and In the distance gmpses OF the rush aud glow OF
the room On the opposite canvas her sister STANDS
pleed her toilet She has taken rose 10 put IN her na
but pink leaves have fallen apart at her touch
and looking at the fragile thing she uters the sentence
that defines the artists idea: "We both must fade"
Mrs. Loop is working upon the portraits Of Mr. A. r.
Cummings and Mr.. Furguson, a Boston gentleman Both
pictures treated carefully.
Miss Freeman is finishing a on Lake George and
"Trout Brook" in the Casks the latter cool forest
nook through which babbes the merry brook beoyedo OF
many WaltonS
Miss Walters has sent "MOuntain Ravine" from the
Adirondacks the Academy. She has upon the easel
"Iake Placid" which Is nearly finished The artists
studio ia a picture in ITSELF with its sboundng vines and
mosses and its bright contrasting bits Of color The
managers Of the Y NJ. G. A. have relaxed their rules IN
of Miss Walters who will next month take posses
sion of "A studio in their building.
In the same building Miss Fanny Elliott, bright little
New-Engand girl, is hard at work. trifie OF lonely
Cape Cod marsh Is visible easel, and on another
are two little dead pigeons Miss Elliott is represented
In the Academy by the Massachusetts coast.
Miss Mary Kollock has sent to tho Academy two pic
tures-a "scene the Kishcoquilla" Pennsylvanian
river and Coast Scene at Cape Ann" She has just
finished a weird picture, "a Fog on Lake Michigan
trile Of gray mist and lonely sand Miss holock Will
spend the coming sketchng in the mountains of
North Carolina