The morning times., 1896-09-06
Among Them Are Some Who
Bear Famous Names-AlI
Are Hard Workers and
Devoted to Their
Profession.

student now, though she still studies. She
Is u professional
Her speciality is children's faces. These
she does with much delicacy, making them
young, sweet and dimpied. She was the
first artist who ever had the courage to
put pug nose npon a chiiis face. though
all ehildrea's noses are pug. Besides draw
ing in line work, which is Miss Eccleston's
speciality, she carves exquisite!y. When she
was a little girl she carved an Idol oct
Of a rotten piece OF wood. Her father saw
it and was impressed with the correctness
Of the lines. for the child had correctly COP
led an idol in the Metropolitan Museum.
and he told her tn keep on. At ten her
instruction in art began.
George Cables daughter is another oil the
daughters OF literary fathers who have
worked successfully with the brush. Though
married now, this young woman is a-''girl
artist - embellishing her fathers writings
and successfully contributing to the r;lag;I-
zines. Her best work is in the character
sketches which her iaiher describes so
graphically. Sic says she --sces them while
he reads
The peculiarly quiet, studious disposition
of professional men pervades, with the
/ touch OF heredity, the minds of the daueh-
ters- Daughters of Ia W yers. clergyTnen and
the girls of army officers turn TO art and
want to study IL. They do not ask for re
served seats in the art classes, but are con-
tent to fall in line with the rest and wait
for talent to bring them forward.
One OF these girls who took a course
at the IT League, working hard at the
~ . t..
casts, was Elsie Clews. daughter of Henry
CIews, the banker. Miss Clews' best work
lay in her outdoor sketches. Her desire
was to paint landscape, and she did it so
well that the students crowded around her
easel, as they will around anything good.
and freely admired. They are apparently
untutored in workiliness, and neglect to
the point OF scorn a student who shows no
ability for art
Miss Mary Flower, niece OF ex-Gov-
Flower, is girl artist She has style.
something highly valued in art work Her
family portraits have the touch of great
beauty, and her commissions have been
paintings for family portrait galleries.
This is a line OF work much coveted by all
artists OF all degrees of prominence and OF
both Sc xes. To go further and be admitted
to the annual portrait show in the autumn
is the very acme OF desire But this has
as yet been attained by few of the girl
artists" The professionals, ROsina En-
met Sherwood and her wellknown sisters
mart, have alone been represented there
Miss Jessamy Harte is known in quiet
way to illustrators as "a young woman
who can il she will" Like her father, she
works when she feels like it, and with mar
veious talent She studies in the same
way. by fits and starts She is one of the
youngest OF the illustrators, and has an ex-
pressed ambition to do newspaper Illus
trating Il branch OF work into which all
high-class illustrators are rapidly coming.
Good presswork encourages them to offer
their pictures to the newspapers, where
bad paper. hand presses and cheap ink used
to deter them. The exquisite presswork Of
the last year, which makes the newspaper
out-distance the magazine. has attracted
older artists than Miss Harte to the Sunday
editors ROOM
Miss Margaret Kittredge. daughter OF
the well-kuown clergyman, is n girl well
along in art work She paints with much
panstakinS. and disposes OF all the work
she cares to turn OFT