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Show Painted in Seventy-Two Hours. There is a picture in this year's show at the Royal academy which has a singular history. It was painted by an artist who is now a captain on active ac-tive service, but the picture is not the one which he showed to his friends at this year's contribution. The original was of a sunset over a plowed field, a fine landscape in a style which has distinguished dis-tinguished the artist. Five months ago the painter was home on leave, and he spent it working over his picture. Today To-day the canvas shows the plowed field and the sunset ; but it also shows six soldiers fallen about a cannon, into the breech of which one survivor Is placing the last shell. It is a fine picture, pic-ture, and by no means a pot-boiler. The captain witnessed the incident he depicts. The fortunate thing was that the landscape was ready for the figures for no academy picture could be painted during 72 hours' leave. |