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THE GIRL AND THE NET BY MRS. LUCIA FAIRCHILD FULLER

(Philadelphia Exhibition of Miniatures)

Polish painters. He was born in 1862 and re-
ceived his artistic training in Cracow, Munich, and
Paris; and his work shows strong traces of the
traditions of the Munich Academy. He is almost
exclusively a portrait painter, and his talent in this
field is revealed pre-eminently in his masterly hand-
ling of form and his acute discernment of his
sitter’s characteristics, which indeed frequently
betrays a slight tendency to caricature. But did
not Ingres say that in a good portrait there is
always an element of caricature ? In this respect
Lentz reminds one somewhat of Daumier, though
his teachers are to be sought among the great
Dutch masters, and Hals perhaps more especially.
As a colourist the Polish artist is less interesting,
and most of his pictures
give one the impression of
being almost monochromes.

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with a single exception,
were women, very prob-
ably owing to the fact
that this particular form
of art appeals with a
peculiar sense of fitness
to the feminine fancy,
although we know that
the most appreciated
miniature painters of the
eighteenth century were
men who were quite as
successful in the render-
ing of the delicate
stippling and cross-
hatched effects that we
find to-day in the work
of our women artists.
One associates almost in-
evitably the beautiful dress of that period with the
work of these painters. The subjects of the most
successful modern painters of miniatures, most
likely owing to the lack of the picturesque in the
costume of to-day, show a decided departure from
the traditional portraits. Miss Laura Coombes
Hills, for instance, exhibited' a group of works
depending for their charm upon qualities not
usually found in the historical examples. Among
these her beautiful Psyche attracted favourable
notice, although she also showed a number of
idealised portraits. Miss Dora IVetherbee, by Miss
Sally Cross, was excellent in management of un-
affected pose and simple drapery. Miss A.
Margaretta Archambault’s portrait, entitled La

THREE LITTLE SISTERS

BY MRS. MARGARET KENDALL

Philadelphia.

—The Eleventh
Annual Exhibition
of Miniatures, held
recently at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, in-
cluded one hundred and
eleven contributions from
■contemporary American
painters in petto, tastefully
.grouped on the walls of one
■of the galleries contiguous
to the annual show of the
Philadelphia Water - Colour
■Club. All the exhibitors,

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