The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-24
SUCCESSOR OF ROSE BONHEUR.
Maud Earl, of London, the Greatest Living
Painter of Animals First Woman
to Portray the Dogs of the
British Royalty.

search parties. and they often have =
barrel OF wine sluns around their neck
for the sustenancc OF the wounded who
are strong enough 20 help themselves
until other succor arrives. got all the
information about the custom from Ger
man officers and the gun In the picture
painted from one at the ST. Johns Wood
barracks. and an artilleryman sat for the
fallen trooper My chief difficulty was TO
ger a dog. and NJ length / found one In
Germany. lie STAYED with me while
painted him. and | never had u more
troublesome visitor, l was obliged To
muzzlc him while he sat. but when
came To painting his head and the muzzle
had to be slipped his conduct was thing
20 be remembered
Another % my novel experiences was
with the famous Eskimos, the three SUR
vivors out Of the sixty dogs taken with
Lieut. Peary on his Arctic expedition. I
painted them In my picture The End OF
the Expedition | shall never forget
when those dogs arrived; they were alb
solutely wild. We put them in cab
somehow. and I got in with them, and
my man. too while Seweirs kennel man.
where l was going tn lodge them, sat on
the box. do not know what happened
during that ride; | seem TO have a con-
fused idea OF our all emptying on thu
pavement. pell-mell.
Each day these animals had to he
fetched and taken back In a cab from tho
kennel TO the studio, although u WAS only
a short distance. because IL was impos-
siblc 20 lend them through the streets. I
had some extraordinary scenes with
them. They knew no language al all, and
the only thing which they understood
was the whip and their coats were 50
thick that a whip did not have much eff
feet or course sleighiug was the work
to which they were accustomed. and they
turned nearly every piece OF furniture IN
this studio into "a sleage during their Wis
g. II seemed ms though they could not
be happy unless they were drawing sotne>
thing about.
"Still. | heilvc. on the whole, tina, they
were nice dogs. They were not vicious or
ill-;empcred. but merely frightened. {
suppose, ut being transported from tho
SHOWS Of the frigid zone into London
studio. which was exceedingly natural.
During the slttngs | was obliged To slva
them Intervals for recreation. or | could
never have painted thcm at all: and when
they were beginning 60 he quite unbear-
able used TO turn them out into the wida
passage. which leads from tho studio up
10 the outer gntcs and they bounded up
| and down for "a half hour Hike mad. Z
| could well understand that they were In.
| valuable for drawing sleighs My man
| suffered considerably while holding them.
' for they usually pulled him over ut least
4 twice during q sitting. and there they
! would he all IN heap IN the floor toe
Kether, and ! had 10 rush 20 the rsscues
Still you know, they were most interests
Ing dogs and fascinated me. liked their
faces exceedingly ana should liked ID
have kept one as n companion"
Miss Earl IS thorough student. antA
would consider II criminal 10 neglect any
effort that would aid her in the slightest