CHANGING FORTUNES.
The freaks of fortune arc strikingly illustrated in the case of L. Welden Hawkins, an English artist. Previous to a year ago he had never been heard of. His clothing was seedy and unfashionable, and his landlady anything but amiable. He was thirty-two years of age and had produced nothing but a picture of “ orphans visiting the grave of their parents," seemed to him worth sending to the exhibition. It not only attracted attention, but won a medal and gave him a name. Commissions arrived from all quarters. Before the exhibition closed the artist had new clothes, the most perfect tempered landlady iu the world, and work on hand for which he was to recieve when finished more than £12,000. Mr Hawkins paints little touches of quiet country landscapes.
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Patea Mail, 23 August 1882, Page 3
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131CHANGING FORTUNES. Patea Mail, 23 August 1882, Page 3
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