​ALCOTT, May, artist, was born at Concord, Mass., in December, 1840, daughter of Amos Bronson and Abby (May) Alcott. Her education in art was obtained in Boston, London, and Paris, where she resided after her marriage to Ernest Nieriker. She became a successful copyist, and did good work in still life in oils and water colors. John Ruskin complimented some of her copies from Turner, and her own work was placed in the South Kensington school in London for the pupils to observe and copy. "Concord sketches," with a preface by her sister, Louisa May Alcott, was published in 1869. She died in December, 1879.