ART AND ARTISTS.
—M. Munkacsy, the eminent Hungarian painter, was not esteemed a prodigy by his own countrymen in his youth. Over 30 years age he applied to the Pesth Society of Fine Arts for monetary assistance, in order to carry on his studies. The society gave him £6, reporting his case as a " mediocre talent, to whom not more than £6 could be granted."
— A native of Karachi has produced four portraits of the Royal Family in a medium that has rarely been used for that purposenamely, fine silk needlework. The stitching is remarkably 'fine, and the difficulties of shading the complexion and the folds in the draperies in such a material are evidently immense ; nevertheless the artist has achieved a considerable measure of success, and the result is well worth seeing as a curiosity. The portraits are something in the line of the Bayeux tapestry, and appear to be a new form of art in India.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 60
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