97 and 150 of the catalogue, are both admirably well painted, handled with remarkable firmness and freedom, while at the same time giving evidence of patient, tentative care.
[6] In 1886, her portraits where shown at the Academy with other women artists, such as Cecilia Beaux, Gabrielle D. Clements, Lucy D. Holme, and Emily Sartain,[7] who were also winners of the annual Smith Prize between 1881 and 1892.
Beaux, also a student, described one night at Colarossi's, "We went with Miss Trotter and after passing through a hall of a house, descended into a strange court gleaming with broken statues, and bas reliefs, models standing around with a little flickering light falling on them.
The most graceful, charming intelligent creature with enormous dark eyes, the brow of Apollo when you could get a glimpse of it under his shock of black hair.
People who regularly lived at the colony during the summers included Howard Russell Butler, Walter Gay, Clifford Grayson, Arthur Hoeber, Lovell Birge Harrison, and Edward Simmons.
[7] Her painting, Lamplight, described as a notable work by The New York Times, was shown at the National Academy of Design show in April 1891.