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els, dimes and pennies, which he gave
the woman, who was crying with joy.
Then the powerful tenor of the artist
was heard again. Holding his hand to
/ his heart he sang the last notes of the
Italian serenade, and then walked away
with his friend.
The woman said between sobs that
her name was Julia Cagnacci, ard that
she lived in OBrien street with her
aged mother and her two children,
Sylvia and Philomena.
Mr. Shamberk has been in Chicago q
little over a year, coming from Austria.
| He studied portrait painting at Rome
under Giovanni Morello and attended
the academies of fine arts at Munich
and Paris. He has painted the por-
traits of several prominent members Of
the Reichstag at Berlin. The picture
of Mayor Harrison is nearly completed.
It is a full length painting, showing the
Mayor in his characteristic attitude
when delivering a speech. The paint
ing will be presented to the city by
the Mayors friends.
/
The mantle of Rosa Bonheur has fall
| len upon one who, While still little
more than a girl, gives promise of be-
ing the most remarkable animal paint
| er of the day. The name of the artist
is Lucy e. Kemp Welch, and her
| fame has been ringing in the realms of
! art ever since her painting entitled
| ITO Arms" representing an early
| morning scene in the camp Of the
| Duke Of Yorl's army before the first
battle of the Roses at St. Albans, was
seen at the Royal Academy exhibition
The scene represents a camp alive with
warlike preparations, with the war
horses that Miss Kemp Welch has
shown she can paint so spIendidly true
| to life, prancing and tossing their
names as though they already scent
| the battle from afar and are eager to
| be galloping enemyward.
| Miss Kemp-Welch grew to be the
great artist by no accident or fuke of
fortune In her home life at the place
of her birth, the beautiful English town
of Bournemouth, she was brought up
in an artistic atmosphere, for her
| mother was deeply interested in artis
| tic subjects, and her father a botanist
and natural history collector. In her
| girlhood the future animal painter ac-
! cOmpanied her father in his rambles
| and grew quite learned in the ways of
! beetles and creeping things, making
wonderful progress for a child in the
| knowledge of the creatures of the nat
ural history world, sketching birds,
| horses and beetles with equal patience
and method.
| But Miss Kemp Welch's first love
was the horse, and she never for q.
moment swerved from it, She grew
quite desperate to study Systematically
when, at the age of 16, one of her pic
! lures a study in horses heads, which
had been on exhibition, was snapped
| up by a dealer. Her young spirit was
! beating itself out against the bars,
/ desiring to enter the world Of art and
| take her place with other aspirants for
/ fame and fortune. Soon after her
mothers death, Professor Herkomer of
! Bushey Art School, "discovered' Miss
! kemp-Welch Now for the first time
/ she was really taught to paint. By
her own early practices she had ac-
/ quired the power Of correct observa-
tion and a knowledge of drawing, it
may be said, from the life, but hitherto
she had not learned the method of
! putting on colors and of manipulating
! them. However, that realized, how
| spontaneous has been the genius of
Miss Kemp Welch. Not at Bushey, or
anywhere else, has she studied animal
painting-that seems to have come by
nature. She follows no master and
no special school. Her simple advice
to the art students who flock to her
/ studio for instruction, is BE individ-
| ual, be natural and copy only nature. p"
In appearance Miss Kemp Welch is
still girl. Her face is wonderfully
sweet and full of a subtle power which
grows every hour that you are in her
presence. You feel it in the steady,
! quiet voice and the look of her brown
! eyes, so soft and yet so penetrating.
| Simple in taste. manner and in dress,
| the artist has selected a home which
seems exactly to fit her 1t stands
unpretentiously in a line with other
! houses in the center of the old village
! of Bushey, opposite the church, and is
named Kingsley" Originally the
house was an old wayside inn and
what was once the bar has been con-
verted into the coziest and quaintest
old square entrance hall imaginable,
with a grandfather's clock ticking in
| the corner. Looking on to the village
/ street is Miss Kemp Welch's study,
where she sees visitors and transacts
/ correspondence, for she leads a very
| busy life, and is at work from morning
| till night with her own paintings, or
instructing pupils who attend at her
! STUDIO A few steps down from the
/ hall is the dining-room. This has been
/ heightened by letting into it con-
| servatory, which throws a general
sense of light and brightness into the
room. Miss Kemp-Welch and her sis
| ter Edith, who are as devoted to each
| other as two sisters can be, and have
| never been separated from each other,
| have transformed this old inn into one
| of the quaintest, homliest and one of
| the most artistic homes one can i'm
| agine.
From Kingsley" there makes its ap.
| pearance at intervals an animal paint
! ing, around which the connoisseurs
gather in admiration, congratulating
| each other that if Rosa Bonheur has
passed from the world of art her skill
with brush lives in another