FAMOUS PAINTING STUDY
ORIGINAL OF “BUBBLES”
Dominion Special Service.
Auckland, February 26.
An Australian business man, Mr. E. H. Maas, who arrived by the Maunganui, is the original of Sir John Millais’s world-known painting, “Bubbles.” “I was four or five years old at the time and lived in London,” said Mr. Maas. “I was acting as a page at a wedding when Sir John caught sight of me and wished to paint me. It so happened that the sittings were perforce put off for a month, because I ate far to much at the breakfast and became ill, but in due course the painting was completed.” Mr. Maas is quite ready to admit that few would now recognise him from his oft printed likeness.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 131, 27 February 1929, Page 10
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