Show LAA FRENCH GIRL ARTIST WINS FAMEd FAME-d ao Although she Is only 26 and ono might think r Bo altogether too pretty to be a real genius no one can question the claim of Mile Louise Lavrnt to A ho one of tho most gifted women artists of the ads er I day Ialn4 Having won some of the highest honors in Wed the French art world Mile Lavrut recently went her to London to give an exhibition of her paintings o su and considering her groat ability and tho fact ants that she has the backing of the king himself It Is not surprising that her visit proved more or less of a triumph Commissions portraits of lead oil Ing members of tho fashionable world are coming ho t In faster than they can bo executed by the young eels French artist rated BO story of Mlle Lavruts career Is a truly wonderful tale She showed a jititude for drawing soon after she began to walk When at school at glen of Honor establishment as a mere child she was allowed to draw ddo t ear rayons and her studies attracted the attention of Jules Lefobvre who t 5i iit that time one of the visiting professors He watched the child andy had and-y after much opposition from her family secured permission for her to I 1 ph tho Julian academy Lftor a thorough grounding in the elementary art there she was allowed rventt tel the ateliers of Jules Lefebvre and Robert Floury When 11 years n of or first picture was exhibited at tho Salon She was kept hard at work cunt studios of her two masters until at 19 her picture at thin years Salon most feht her an honorable mention Thim she established her own studio and ory o taking commissions la ao next year she received the bronze medal for tho third best picture mdh Salon Tho municipality of Bhelms bought the picture Success con rting to come rapidly Mile Lavrut was made an officer of tho academy next promoted to Chevalier of the Order of Public Industry und last r hole von tile blue ribbon of the art world tho gold modal of tho French sores for tho best portrait of the year The French government then bought tnt al of her pictures and sho became the rage In Purls Her gold medal g sad to lu a portrait of the two daughter oi the Duobesa do Taicnte |