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Homer, Winslow — Continued. 
Oil Painting — 
Early Evening. 
Water Colors— 
Waterfall in the Adirondack. 
A Fisherman's Day. 
Sun and Cloud. 
Melchers, J. Gari. 
Born, Detroit, Mich., Aug. n, i860. Pupil of Diisseldorf Academy; 
Lefebvre and Boulanger in Paris. Hon. mention, Paris Salon, 1886; first 
class medal, Amsterdam, 1887; third class medal, Paris Salon, 1888; first 
class medal, Munich, 1888; grand prize, Paris Exp., 1889; first prize, Art 
Inst. Chicago, 1891; medal of honor, Berlin, 1891; gold medal, Art Club, 
Phila., 1892; medal of honor, Antwerp, 1894; Temple gold medal, Pa. Acad. 
Fine Arts, 1896; first class medal, Vienna, 1898; gold medal, Pan-Amer. 
Exp., Buffalo, 1901, and St. Louis Exp., 1904; second W. A. Clark prize, 
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1910. Officer of the Royal Bavarian Order of St. 
Michael; Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France, 1895, Officer, 1904; 
Officer, Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, 1907; Officer, Grand Ducal 
Order The White Falcon of Saxony, 1911. N. A., 1906; member, Nat. Inst. 
Arts and Letters; Paris Soc. Amer. Painters; Soc. Nat. des Beaux-Arts, 
Paris; Inter. Soc. of Artists, London; Royal Soc. Austrian Painters, Vienna; 
Munich Secession; Berlin Royal Acad. Studio, Paris, France. 
Oil Painting — 
Portrait of President Roosevelt. 
Sargent, John Singer. 
Bom, Florence, Italy, of American parents, Jan. 12, 1856. Pupil of 
Academy of Fine Arts, Florence; Carolus Duran in Paris. Hon. mention, 
Paris Salon, 1878; second class medal, Paris Salon, 1881; medal of honor, 
Paris Exp., 1889; medal, Art Club, Phila., 1890; medal, Columbian Exp., 
Chicago, 1893; Temple gold medal, Pa. Acad. Fine Arts, 1894; medal of 
honor, Paris Exp., 1900; gold medal, Pan-Amer. Exp., Buffalo, 1901; Con- 
verse gold medal, Pa. Acad. Fine Arts, 1903; large gold medal, Berlin, 1903; 
grand prize, St. Louis Exp., 1904; gold medal of honor, Liege Exp., 1905; 
gold medal, Venice, 1907; Beck gold medal, Pa. Acad. Fine Arts, 1909. 
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, France, 1889, Officer, 1897; Royal Acad., 
London, A, 1894, R. A., 1897; Institute de France, 1905; Order of Merit, 
Germany, 1909. N. A., 1897; member, Mural Painters; Copley Soc. (hon.); 
Amer. Inst. Arch, (hon.); Phila. Water Color Club (hon.); Amer. Acad. 
Arts and Letters; Paris Soc. Amer. Painters; Soc. Nat. des Beaux-Arts, 
Paris; Berlin Acad. Portrait and mural painter. Studio, Chelsea, Lon- 
don, and Broadway, England. 
