History Museum Gets Lwoff Paintings of Two Famous Men

Portraits of John Burroughs and Edwin Markham painted by the late Princess Lwoff, which were presented by Mrs. David C. Cook of Chicago, were placed on exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History yesterday.

Edwin Markham was present at the presentation of the pictures, which were accepted by President H. Fairfield Osborn. Although not a scientist in a strict sense of the word, Mr. Markham was a friend of Burroughs, John Muir and other naturalists and the author of poems of nature and of a volume largely devoted to a description of the natural beauties of California.

Portraits of President Osborn of the Museum and of Joseph H. Choate by Princess Lwoff are already a part of the Museum’s collection. Princess Lwoff, who died in this country in 1923, had painted many famous personages of Europe and America, including the Tsar and Csarina Nicolas of Russia, King Edward of England, Emperor William of Germany, King Christian of Denmark, King Leopold of Belgium, King Albert of Belgium, King Albert of Saxony, King Wilhelm of Württemberg, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Queen Carola of Saxony, Empress of Rumania, Queen Carmen Sylva of Rumania, Queen Elizabeth of Württemberg, King Alexander of Serbia, King Peter of Serbia, King Constantine of Greece, King Nicholas of Montenegro, the Shah of Persia and Prince Raj Rana of Talvar.

Among the famous Americans whom the Princess painted were August Belmont, Andrew Carnegie, Charles F. Chandler, William H. Childs, William C. Church, Robert W. DeForest, George Dewey, Chauncey M. Depew, Thomas A. Edison, Daniel C. French, George W. Goethals, Myron T. Herrick, Seth Low, Percival Lowell, Ludwig Nissen, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Alton B. Parker, Horace Porter, Ogden Mills Reid, Whitelaw Reid, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles D. Sigsbee, Daniel E. Sickels, H. H. Topakyan, Nikola Tesla, Benjamin F. Tracy and James Grant Wilson.