MASTERPIECE COPIED
Woman’s Mammoth Task AMBITION NEARS END (By Mavis.) Dominion Special Service. Loudon, Sept. 10. Twice every week for the past twelve years, a woman has sat at the same easel, painting the same picture in the National Gallery. Crowds always gather round her as she sits there silently and carefully applying brush strokes to her mammoth, canvas. She never takes any notice of them or of the time that has slipped away in hours and days and years while she has laboriously copied a. masterpiece. It was shortly after the end of the World War that Miss Alice Winifred Guest brought her camp-stool and her paints to the National Gallery. She sat down before “The Adoration of the Kings,” by Jan de Mabuse (1472-1535), a colossal canvas containing about a dozen life-size figures, and decided then to copy it It is almost finished now—with all the minute details which were characteristic of the Flemish School. “I never thought it would be easy, and I knew it might try me,” Miss Guest was induced to talk a little, “but I never thought it impossible.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 67, 12 December 1932, Page 4
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