The American Museum Journal 

Vout. X APRIL, 1910 No. 4 
PORTRAIT OF THE HONORABLE JOSEPH H. CHOATE 
A FouNDER AND TRUSTEE 
MONG the founders of the Museum, one who stands out promi- 
nently for long-continued and valuable services to the institution 
is the Honorable Joseph H. Choate. Only on rare occasions, 
however, can Mr. Choate be found in person within its walls, but from 
now on visitors may see his genial face and feel the energy of his presence 
in a life-size portrait painted with unusual power. ‘The portrait is the 
work of Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy and is presented by her to the Museum 
through President Osborn. 
The artist has painted more royal and princely personages than any 
other living painter, and although still young, counts some two hundred 
portraits of well-known persons as her life work. From the time of her 
childhood at Hajdti-Dorog, Hungary, she has shown marked talent in 
portraiture and has a strength and ruggedness of style reminding one of 
Rembrandt and Franz Hals. She studied at Budapest and Munich, 
having the unique distinction, for a woman, of working under the great 
von Lenbach, then went to Italy for study of the Italian school. It was 
while here that she made her first great success in a portrait of Kossuth, 
the Hungarian patriot, who was living in exile at Turin. ‘The portrait 
now hangs in the Museum at Budapest. Afterwards she worked in 
Holland, devoting much time to the Dutch masters. 
The most celebrated paintings by the Princess are probably a por- 
trait of Kaiser Wilhelm IT and one of von Moltke, the former hanging 
in the imperial castle at Berlin, the latter in the building of the General 
Staff of the same city. Others of her pictures are to be found in the 
museums of Dresden, Leipzig, Heidelberg, Hannover and Vienna. 
She has received more and higher decorations in the sphere of art than 
any other woman in the world. Among these medals and decorations 
may be mentioned the great gold state medal of Germany (the Princess 
is the only woman in the world who has received this honor), ‘‘ Hors 
Concours”’ and life member of the jury of Berlin, the great gold medal 
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