The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-12

old. This most noted Of women artists
painted many royal persons and became
a member of The French Academy, She
lived to the age of 81, and left over
650 portraits, 200 landscapes, and 10
historical pictures, Her habits OF be-
ing always busy seemed TO preserve her
beauty rather than TO wear ii down--a
Tulc which has ever held good among
famous beauties of tEc stage, and which
should be noted we'll by those ladics
of our time who seek beauty through
idleness.
The contemporary of Nine. Lebrun,
who, like the latter, painted her own
beautiful portrait, was the beloved An
gelica Kauffmann-Maric ADgellque
Catharine-fair lady of the land OF
the Swiss. After gaining a reputation
as painter in Italy, she went to Eng
land at the age of "a. She made an
unfortunate marriage with clever I'M
postor, who posed as Count Horn, whose
valet he had been. But she afterward
married Zucchi, an Italian painter. At
the age of 40 she left England, and
a century ago, aged Go, She possessed
not only great beauty of face, but of
| figure, as will be seen later. Several
poets of her time sang praises OF her
great beauty In verse.
Turning Door Knob Spoiled Hands.
The greatest beauty of the court Of
Napoleon Bonaparte was the famous
| Nine Recamier, who at fifteen married
wealthy Paris banker three times her
age, Not only her great beauty, but
| her superior intellect, drew to her house
the most brilliant men of her time, and
she took such infinite care of her beauty
that it was said she would not so much
as turn the knob of door for fear of
deracting from the perfection of her
hands. Her salon became the gathering
place for those noted personages who
opposed Napoleon in matters of both
politics and religion and he banished
| her from France. Prince Augustus of
| Prussia pressed her to divorce her hus.
band, after the latter had lost his
wealth, and to marry him. She at first
consented, but the unselfsh attitude of
her husband, who consented, is said to
have so touched her that she decided
to share his poverty. After she became
widowed the great Chateaubriand
sought her hand, but she refused him.
She was painted by many artists, nota"
bly, David.
Another great French beauty of these
times, but Of q lower walk of life, was
Constance Mayer, the favorite model of
the great painter, Pierre Paul Prud hon,
She was described rs radiant and pos
sessed of a constant smile which was to
Prud hon in later life what Mona Lisa IS
! was TO Leonardo da Vinci. She was one
of his best pupils, and after he was
abandoned by his dissolute wife she
came to live with him. But in 1921, in
delirium of fever. she jumped from a
window and was killed. The remainder
Of Prud hon S days saw only despair
and he followed her to the grave III two
years.
Britain S Venus Cook S Daughter.
OF Eugland's IS great beauties the most
sought by painters was the famous Lady
Hamilton. AS Emma Lyon she was born,
in Cheshire. the natural daughter of
cook. She became a servant girl in q
London inn, and while she was posing
as The Goddess of Beauty in Giving
pictures her beauty first gained fame.
1t attracted Sir William Hamilton, who
married her and took her 10 Naples,
when he was minister to that court. She
gained great social success there and
became an intimate friend Of Queen Ma
ria Carolina. While at Naples she
took foremost part in political in
trigucs. involving Lord Nelson, the
great British admiral, who after Sir