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 “The Monk Felix,” from Longfellow's “Golden Legend”; “Evening Prayer at the Wayside Shrine, Germany” (1883); “The Conversion of the Heathen General Placidus, by a Miracle while Hunting” (1885); “Live-Oak Forest in the Ojai Valley, California” (1887); “St. Paul, the First Hermit,” and “A Walk through the Pine Barrens, Florida” (1888). In 1888 she exhibited a large number of landscapes in Boston.