THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
A Famous Picture. “Apropos of the medical profession, there lias probably never been a member of it whose face lias been so familiar to the general public as the original of tho principal figure in Luke Fildes’s famous painting, ‘The Doctor.’ After being one of the pictures of the year in the Royal Academy Exhibition about thirty years ago, it was reproduced in print, and has had a phenomenal sale. One meets it in private houses, hotels, country cottages, and inns all over tho country, and it seems almost as popular in other lands. I have seen it in Franc-c, Germany, and China. A few years ago I found the picture adorning one of the walls of a farm-house near the Polish frontier in Upper Silesia. There is something appealingly human in the subject, and, still more, in the attitude and expression of the doctor, who is anxiously studying the face of the.sick child ■on the cottage bed, and looking for any sign of hope, while the parents in the background are awaiting his verdict. But probably not one in five thousand of those who havo_admired the picture have boon aware that the painter took n real doctor for his model.” —Major Fitzroy Gardner.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1926, Page 2
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208THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1926, Page 2
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