How Famous Painters Work – Peeps into their Studios 1899

Title : How Famous Painters Work - Peeps into their Studios  
Author : Lewis Hind
Source : Windsor Magazine
Year Published : 1899
Page Count : 8
Image Count : 8
Word Count : 4,757
File Size in MB : 4.7
File Type : PDF

"Animal painters find it convenient to live in the neighbourhood of the Zoological Gardens, and the authorities of that institution are kind to them, for when the beasts die they courteously send the bodies over in a cart to the painter. One morning, when Mr. Briton Riviere was at breakfast, a servant entered the room with the remark, “ If you please, sir, a lion have come.” Mr. Briton Riviere stepped out into the street, and there, sure enough, was a lion upon a truck. The beast had died during the night. But a limp, dead lion is a very different object from the splendid living beast, with every muscle taut and radiant with..."