[Illustration: ELEANOR B., BY WILLIAM J. WHITTEMORE Exhibited at the Panama-Pacific Exposition] [Illustration: MISS M., BY WILLIAM J. WHITTEMORE] _Lucia Fairchild Fuller_ The successes of Lucia Fairchild Fuller, like those of Miss Hills and Miss Thayer, followed immediately upon Mr. Baer's. Mrs. Fuller's painting, like Mr. Baer's, is full of tenderness, reflecting sympathetically and affectionately the details of her subjects. Feminine grace and the charm of child life are special qualities of her work. In the Metropolitan Museum may be seen a masterpiece of child portraiture--a little girl standing in her nightgown, caressing her doll. In this the color scheme is delicate throughout--in the tender pearly flesh and the pale blue background. In "Mother and Child," the portrait of a woman with a classic profile, dressed in red brocade with ivory white draperies over her shoulders, upholding the nude figure of a little girl with outstretched arms, is again seen a perfection of arrangement, line and fine color, and a predominating human interest that attracts by its sympathy. _Alice Beckington_ Alice Beckington, like the other miniaturists just referred to, was one of the original members of the American Society of Miniature Painters. A close friend of Miss Thayer's in the latter's lifetime, she profited much by that influence. Her work is distinguished by its dignity and reserve. Her most successful miniatures tend to warm schemes of color. In her portrait of her mother ("Portrait of Mrs. Beckington") in the Metropolitan Museum, the coloring of the dress is of a faded blue, against a background of a warm, dull coloring--not gray, not brown, while the reddish color of the chair provides the only note of difference needed to satisfy the eye. This picture is essentially characteristic of Miss Beckington's art, representing her straightforward and sincere simplicity, combined with an appreciation of subdued color harmonies. [Illustration: GIRL WITH THE GREEN SHAWL, BY HELEN M. TURNER In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City] [Illustration: BESSIE MOORE, BY VIRGINIA REYNOLDS In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City] [Illustration: ELIZABETH HUMPHREY, BY MARTHA S. BAKER In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City] _William J. Whittemore_ William J. Whittemore is well known as a painter in oils and in water color--one who essayed miniature painting without ever deserting the other mediums. His work is marked by a fondness for completeness of beauty and fineness of finish, whether in oil or miniature. As a master of form and an excellent painter of likenesses, Mr. Whittemore has executed a great number of portrait miniatures. His "Burgomeister," in which an old man wearing a ruff appears against a somber background, is a fine bit of characterization, strongly expressed. [Illustration: ALEXANDER PETRUNKEVITCH BY MARGARET F. HAWLEY In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City]