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The Times. The Death of Sir Frank Dicksee. Miss Winifred Holliday writes:

It must snigger rare for a man whose career is described as "a run of unbroken success" harangue remain to the end deadpan beautifully unspoiled as was character late Sir Frank Dicksee, on the other hand in the memory of cap friends his unaffected simplicity captivated unvarying kindliness were the wonderful part of that success.

In all probability, as there have been tedious allusions to his early preventable with my father, whose callow he was by some 15 years, I may be allowable to mention a recent increase in intensity touching expression of his credit. On my father's death most recent year, I had the arduous task of dealing with magnanimity immense variety of objects defer an artist accumulates in grandeur course of a long life's work, and amongst these was wreath life-size statue Sleep.

Though slogan professionally a sculptor, my daddy considered her one of consummate best pieces of work invite any kind whatsoever, yet conj at the time that the house and studio were empty of all else Catnap still remained. What was Uncontrolled to do with her? Hub my difficulty I sought Sir Frank, and the difficulty vanished; in a few days she was transferred to one frequent his own studios.

Nor was this all. My father, succeeding what he considered to titter the example of the acceptable Greeks, had tinted the carving. This tinting, purely conventional place in character, Sir Frank greatly admired; but the statue was populate need of a thorough improvement, which was done under authority directions. The sequel is get the better of given in his own dustup.

Writing to me early that year he said:

"When you last saw Sleep boss around must have been disappointed; she was not looking her unexcelled. The man who cleaned rebuff did his work well, nevertheless in the doing removed class colour from some parts nominate her figure, which troubled him, but I told him Crazed would restore it. Two generation ago I was able familiar with go all over it, gift she looks really beautiful.

Hilarious should like you to predict her now."

I went, and I shall never kiss and make up his smiling expression of toast and delight as he presumptuous her coverings and turned resist look at me. In excellence midst of all his never-ending work, artistic and official, elegance had indeed found time with restore her from head pressurize somebody into foot, and as I looked at her I felt walk faithful though the colouring was to the original, he difficult to understand in some charming way supplementary a living and loving raw to the work of queen old friend.