Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Hillern, Bertha von

HILLERN, Bertha von, artist, b. in Treves, Germany, 4 Aug., 1857. She came to this country in 1877, and for two years devoted her time to advocating athletic exercises for women, appearing in public as a pedestrian. She then devoted herself to the study of art, which she has since pursued as a profession in Boston. Among her pictures are &ldquo;The Monk Felix,&rdquo; from Longfellow's &ldquo;Golden Legend&rdquo;; &ldquo;Evening Prayer at the Wayside Shrine, Germany&rdquo; (1883); &ldquo;The Conversion

of the Heathen General Placidus, by a Miracle while Hunting&rdquo; (1885); &ldquo;Live-Oak Forest in the Ojai Valley, California&rdquo; (1887); &ldquo;St. Paul, the First Hermit,&rdquo; and &ldquo;A Walk through the Pine Barrens, Florida&rdquo; (1888). In 1888 she exhibited a large number of landscapes in Boston.