Show 1 I R Royal l Artists Artis Skilled din in Use of Paint taint and Brush H wonder how many TSOY of 0 our W WIC readers raa e sr are a aware ware of sl the UIa t e tact fact that INt King cannot Ot only boat boast that he h ha has had bad a picture ed ad at Burlington Burington at an earlier age ace than the tho moat most precocious of our J nt royal roy academician but mat that hi hl hla picture was a purchased tar for a sub substantial ManUal um sum before the public even set et eyes eye toy on o It This Thu remarkable and UtU episode In n his hl bl maje ty life Ufe occurred toot more than half balt a century ago apo 0 when whan Queen Victoria Victor children contributed sketches sketch to an alt exhibition which was waa held b ld at t Burlington House U In n aid of a fund find for the en wounded In tics the t Crimean war The Tho record d price In to the exhibition wit waa resumed realised re by b a sketch entitled The uTh Battlefield the work Of t tt the t hP Princess Royal RoI which found a purchaser for the awn cum of ot 80 The Tbt Prince of Wales he h was wu only IX it at the tb time was waa bought for foe ro roG EC 66 G guineas guinea and drawings dral by b t the e still lull younger prince and fetch tte fetched ed So hu guineas each eachIn eachIn II In tb early days day lil lila hie majesty JU I played n II marked aptitude for tor art artIs m mIs a ale Is le evidenced by several vera pictures which are still preserved at n UM and House Housea a II very tery ery clever imaginative presentment of must hutt 1 Queen Alexandra too ban baa tt produced several charming channing landscape and not long Jong ago 0 sent some IOme very clew clever elev botanical sketches which were mUM maeh admired to the tha amateur art exhibition tion There Thre la L aa as a matter of fact tact scarce scarcely ac ly 1 one of ot Queen Quoon descendant who hit has b not Inherited In n some degree her love of art The TIle late lata Frederick waa wa throughout out her hn Ufo Ufa passionately road food of ot and exhibited so 80 much skill that th tM the Rev Ber Berlin RerUn Un lin Academy of ot Arts Art enrolled her b bama among ama Its it members member In recognition of ot other her talent as u a composer compare eid nd 4 K 4 dra man Princess Henry of Battenberg Is U little less Ie skilful with the brush M u la Ie proved by the Ar t fre beautiful landscape which for ao s 8 many man years hung hun In n Queen Victoria at Oborne Osborne and by b m mother y other pictures picture which bleh have honored places In almost every eiery royal palate palace pal tn to Great Gnat Britain Princess Princes Christians tal tel talent talent ent takes tak the tha th form of exquisite 4 de designs signs sigu for tor the tic tapestry produced under her direction at the Royal Roy School of et Art Noodle Needlework work and e VIe Vic Victoria tr toria torla her daughter Is la I one ona on of ut the tM most malt skilful ul amateur painters ot of flowers dower ower In England But undoubtedly the beet beat artl artist t In our royal family ta Is Prince J Louise Loul Duchess of Argyll who can produce with equal skill a n picture or a statue which will compare not unfavorably ly with mo moo professional work ork Nor 1 I U proficiency In art by b any an means mean confined 1 to English royalties It Is II not long Ion since a sumptuous vol volume volume volume ume wit was w published d for tor a charitable cause the th Illustrations Illustration of which were largely Iy supplied by royal artists artl TIM The German emperor contributed a lArik striking Ini ing picture of a large I ship riding at anchor on a placid sea surrounded by smaller boot boats and end with a background back round of or distant snowcapped SHOW rapped mountains Queen Amelia of or Portugal waa wit represented rap rented by a study of a donkeys donkey I head ornamented with trap trapping trapping ping pin the Quern Qu n of Spain by an ex a exquisite x study tudy of flowers the Empress Emp Frederick by 11 a powerful of a a boys boyl Mad hoad 4 and the Clara of b by an ambitious and aNI flue uc etching The Tho German Jerman emperor lie sut as Is well known Is it an artist of much mch more than average skill One of his hie bl pictures picture Fight Between Nn Battleships la t I a r te slime OX K we ex es exhibiting rare ran skill kilt and technical knowledge while his hie hi design for the tower lower of ot the tha Church of or Our Savior at aI Jerusalem proves prove that he Is I no DO moan mean architect and draughtsman King Xing Carlos Carla of Portugal Port Is l I by tt tent uni universal venal versal consent the ablest artist among European J sovereigns Year after alter year his hla aan attract crowd of admit admirers ers ere at t the exhibitions of at the Salon Ion while lie at tho tM tI Patio Paris exhibition a pastel put entitled Tunny Fish FIb on OD the tile Portuguese s Coast Coat won WOD for him the honor of a silver U medal medel The ahab of Persia hit has cultivated his bl talent for drawing with considerable enthusiasm m HI hobby takes take tale a very verv curious form for tor we w are told that In hi hie bla palace at Teheran he be has baa a studio II the wall walla of which ar are covered with white paper on en which lit lie doss does hi his hll sketching When the four wails malls are covered with withdrawing drawing he be has baa them repapered and starts start assist again But perhaps the most interesting of the royal roya artists of at Is la Prince fourth MM ton of or the king dag of don who follows follow art not M a a hob bob hobby bobby tObby by but aa as a pro prof profession aIon lon Vor tour four year be he studied In Paris Part leading the th life Ut of the ordinary art ort student and nd known to his bl brothers broth of the Ulo brush as all Monsieur Eugene During Durl thew th strenuous year vears he worked at his h hearl easel early earl and late refusing to go ro Into so se society clety and hi hll reward came when hl his bla first picture opp appeared ared on the th wall walla of nt the talon salon and end found a prompt pur purchaser purchaser chaser chr who wa an quite quit ignorant of tho thu Ih Identity of its Ita it palmer painter Tit Bit u |