| Show last ART WORK A charcoal sketch worth one hundred dollars drawn lo 10 ten improvisation as an art is usually associated socia ted with music but artists also can dash off a picture when the spirit moves them and the spirit seems to have been very vigorously at work on mr T B seascapes sea are so widely renowned on a certain festive evening not long ago says the london telegram there was stretched before him so it is credibly reported a sheet of paper measuring me asurinE about three feet by four on an easel and upon this canvas he was invited to execute a charcoal drawing in ten minutes the subject chosen by him was the pool below london bridge with the usual accessories of the tower looming in the background and barges and steamers coming up the river on the flood tide so deftly did the artists hand trace the design already recorded in his brain that the whole picture was finished within the very short space of time already mentioned aerial and wave effects we read were obtained by rapid rubbing with the hand or a cloth it might naturally be expected that a drawing done under such trying circumstances would be somewhat sketchy and no doubt the details in it were rather suggested than carefully filled in but the result was very far indeed from being a mere smudge and the company of brother artists literary men and actors before whom the feat was exhibited were loud in their J praise their appreciation indeed was i shown in the most practical of all pos ways for mr hardys charcoal which had taken him only a sixth part of an hour to complete at once changed hands for the price of twenty guineas |
