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 ber of the Ridley Art Club. Born in Llandaff, Glamorganshire.

This sculptor has exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy since 1898. Among her works are "Boys Wrestling," group in the round ; "Study of a Boy," a statuette; "Fishermen Hauling in a Net," "Boys Fishing," "The Hammer Thrower," "Rugby Football," and the "Sea Urchin," a statuette.

Miss Levick has executed a panel for the reredos in St. Brelade's Church, Jersey ; and another for St. Gabriel's Church, Poplar. She exhibited at the Academy, 1903, "Sledgehammers: Portion of a Frieze in Relief."

Lewis, Edmonia. Born in the State of New York. This artist descended from both Indian and African ancestors. She had comparatively no instruction, when, in 1865, she exhibited in Boston a portrait bust of Colonel Shaw, which at once attracted much attention. In 1867 she exhibited a statue called the "Freedwoman." Soon after this she took up her residence in Rome and very few of her works were seen in the United States. She sent to the Philadelphia exhibition, in 1876, the "Death of Cleopatra," in marble. The Marquis of Bute bought her "Madonna with the Infant Christ," an altar-piece. Her "Marriage of Hiawatha " was purchased by a New York lady.

Among her other works are " An Old Arrow-Maker and His Daughter," "Asleep," and terra-cotta busts of Charles Sumner, Longfellow, John Brown, and others.

"Among Miss Lewis's works are two small groups illustrating Longfellow-s poem of Hiawatha. Her first,