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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 Tt'ho is now a captain on ae-tive ae-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 hs 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 U placing the last shell. It Is a fine picture, pic-ture, and by no means a pot-boiler. The captain witnessed the Incident ns-depicts. ns-depicts. The fortunate thing was that the landscape was ready for the figures for no academy picture could b painted during 72 hours' leave. |