ARTISTS AND ANIMALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 14 September 1911, Page 2

ARTISTS AND ANIMALS.

An English ms:saline ' lately (life ussed ns “a curious and inoxplicabl fact” that amongst the few women who have attained excellence in art mch a large proportion of them' should have won fame hy painting Leasts. Rosa BonhoUr and Hennotte Bonnot were early examples which snowed how events were tending. in Fngish art the feminine note is so in tunc with elementary oat ire. th-d we have to thank Miss Kemp-Welch for ‘ C olt hunting in tlto Now Forest. M Mis; Aland Karl for “TJ;e Lost I rad ” : striking presentation of the Fsl.-mc dog in its native setting of snow am ice, and Miss Winifred Austen for : truly hlood-cutdling'treatment of wil. ife in “Camp Followers” and “When the Wolf with Nightly Prowl.” It s not only hy studying striking offer: that these painters of animals Lam gained their renown. Miss Austen’; idelity to Nature realms her v.orl evaluable to naturalists, and she i. uucli in request as illustrator of am ual and bird hooks. A uird sin .•mints as the most difficult subject ,d treat with absolute r access. “Next to it comes a lion, or any ot the big aits.” Though her most .recalcitrant titter, so far, has been a green frog, which, when she required a graceful upright altitude, “insisted upon lying sprawling on his stomach.” Miss Mam! -JSarl, the artist who immortalised “Caesar,” is probably the best paint er of dogs in the world. ■ She has noi only the artistic knowledge of thcii ■looks', habits, and anatomy, but a specialist’s acquaintance with then “points'.” “It is this, with her great artistic ability that renders her unique in her own lined’ _ As for Miss Lucy l Kemp-Welch, who may reflect with pride that one at least of her pictures has found its aay to every colonial collection, her power over the brute creation has become even in her own lifetime the subject of many apocryphal legends. She is credited with stopping runaway horses hy u glance and a word of command a.-a she can bring very viciom-iem pared models into a docility which astounds the much-suffering groom. Mis. 1 ? Aemp-Welch is also the inventor ol the glass studio, through tke walls ol which an artist can waten the ways md atitudes of unconscious subject; in the field beyond. Her only regret is tha a generous public that bms sc liberally insists upon regarding her as pealed to this animal branch of an alone, whereas s.hc'sbmetimos would attempt ’ others'' as a ciiange. Lately, however, she has received a commission to paint tho portrait of a povinfitil Mayor—and only wonders if the Corporation meant, to insinuate some Mayoral likeness to a horse.