Evening star., 1903-12-19
MISS
Caroline L. Ormes Rars0m,
Portrait. Figure and Landscape Painter.

A pupil of A B. Durand New York in l,ndscane.
un9mas HICKS and Daniel Huntington OF New
Sork. and kaulbach of Munich in portraiture and
ngure painting justly be considered one of the
pioneer women artists of this country, as well as
through her works
No other woman artist of this country has paint
ed SO many OF our distinguished men as she Her
very large and most attractive studio at 9l5 +
street northwest with living rooms attached built
ior her oy the late Mrs. Fitzhugh Coyle more than
twenty years ago, has been her place of business
and Washington home since
Inc studio walls, nearly forty feet in length
are closely co 5ered with her works including SOM,
EXQUISITE EXQUISITE copies of the best paintings OF the old
Europe; besides sketches and landscapes made dur
inns collection Is her truly magnificent ful length
Ife-size portrait of Maj. Gen. George H Thomas
on the battlefield of Chickamauga
bill asking for $4,000 to purchase this paint-
ing passed the Senate In response to resolutions
twice passed by the Army of the Cumberland Soci-
ey lndorsing 1t and asking Congress to buy II and
place 1t in the Capitol for permanent exhibition
o ana pr &ppeservaion and also petitions covering
ooooO0 names of eN-Union soldiers asking the same.
as stated by Senator Voorhees, in the Senate Feb,
Iuary -, 1894, and published in Record Of that
date. 1t did not come to vote in the House, and
no action has been taken upon it since Ii should
be the property of the nation.
me portrait or Maj Gen. Mcpherson, pro-
nounced by ex-President Hayes as the best likeness
Of him in existence, is In this collection Also one
when Secretary Of the Treasury The small full,
length portrait of the same, painted at that time.
the Waldorf Astoria, is also her splendid three
gnarterlength portrait of Gen. Grant. from life
Her portrait of Senator Benjamin F. Wade was
purchased by the state of Ohio. her native state
and, with five other of her portraits Of ohios dis.
itai. '-e"' s''t" "onofa''e piace IN It's Cap
In the National Capitol are her portraits of Hon.
joshua X Giddings, the first painting by woman
purchased by this government; and John W TayIor
OF New York. one of the early Speakers of the
Miss Ransom was chosen by the Hamilton family
OF New York TO paint the portrait of Gen. Alex
fnrt ha Frrx.,
by the DIX family of New York TO paint Gen. John
A. Dix for the same.
as Jefferson for the State Department soon after
becoming its Secretary under Garfield One of her
from the city of Toledo for its Memorial Hall.
Among her later portraits Of distinguished per-
Cleveland, Ohio; Judge Rufus +. Ranney and wif,
of the same city, and Miss Harriet z. Dame, the
celebrated army nurse, for the Capitol Of New
Her portraits are noted for their strong charac-
teristic indiyidualties and remarkably fine flesh
tints She is now engaged in painting from her
many sketches Of Niagara Falls, some twenty or
more, carefully painted during six summers spent
there in this work
Aside from her painting she has given much at
tenton to literature and literary work, and is now
engaged upon classical subject that may give her
quite as much distinction as her paintings,
She founded and conducted the Classical Society
OF this city for fifteen years. which. in consequence
of her failing health and the death Of many of
its leading members she ceased to call its meet
ings, and this once noted society is one Of
the things of the past.
A family coat of arms shows Miss Ransom to he
n descendant of Sir Edward Hyde. Lord High
Chancellor of England under Charles II. the grand
father of Queen Anne. Her grandmother her
fathers side was Anne HYDE, which name was
kept in all lhat branch of this family from Sir
Edward down to her time and died with her
Through this grandmother she was descendant of
Col. Wend of Boston, aid to Washington, and rela-
tive of Ethan Allen of Ticonderago fame.
On her mothers side she is granddaughter OF
Gen. Jonathan OImes of Vermont. OF the
vivors of the old Jersey prison ship and brigader
general In the of 1872, with many other dis
tinguished ancestors running back to the times Of
William the Conqueror, when the Barons Ransom
of Normandy went with him to England and
fought in the battle of HASTINGS. With all OF
this ancestral prestige and success artist,
Miss Ransom is one of the most retiring and unas-
sunling of MY women.