Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: It starts on a beautiful day with Lord Henry Wotton observing the artist Basil Hallward painting the portrait of a handsome young man named Dorian Gray .
Simplified: The artist , Basil Hallward , thinks that Dorian Gray is very beautiful , and becomes obsessed with him . One day in Basil 's garden , Dorian Gray meets a man named Lord Henry Wotton .