BABY PAINTERS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 192, 8 May 1908, Page 3

BABY PAINTERS.

; . Youthful patrons of the fine arts thronged the -galleries of the Royal Drawing Society' at. Queen-Anne's Gate, London, • last ' 1 month.The occasion - was--the annual "Red Book" Exhibition of the society, and the- ages of . the exhibitors ranged from two, years to nine-teen-years. ' Among them "were tho Countess of Denbigh's, daughter, Lady Agnes Foildmg; tho daughter of Lady Parnell,- and the httlo granddaughter of Lady Thornycroft. :.. The youngest artist hung "on the- line" was a baby of two years and " five .months, who sont a drawing of, another baby gazing with wondering: eyes, on' a world. that -was new to.it. •• - One little boy,. who follows the Fitzwilliam Hounds, sent some capital sketches of , scenes from the hunting-field. 'Anna B. Hastings, who- is- not- yot. five, painted an 'explorer entering Red Book Land through an' avoniie of chrysanthemums.. . ..A remarkable, picture -'came from' Phyllis Buckland, tho fourteen-year-old daughter of tho vicar of East Mailing., '• One day Phyllisfound a haro, which had cut its leg to tho .bone. She released-the wounded animal, and with marvollous fidelity has painted the look of . suffering iii its eye. .',