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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1974, 3 May 1875, Page 2

The Brussels correspondent of the Pall Mall .Gazette writes :—" A marvellous exhibition is taking place at present at the Cercle'Artistique Litteraire at Brussells. Some months ago Frederick van de Herkhore, the son of a corn merchant of Bruges, died at the age often and a half years*. , He had always been sickly, and was therefore not sent to school, but allowed to roam about; His chief amusements was to paint with such rough painting materials as he could procure. The painting left, by him, of which about a hundred are now exhibited at the Gercle, were discovered since death to be productions which the best landscape painters of the age would not disown. In Brussels good judges of art are astonished that an untutored child should have equalled and even surpassed some of the most celebrated masters. In all those of the pictures where there is a river, a little boy is introduced in the act of angling, representing;, of course, the deceased. Lar^e sums have already been, offered for the cellection, but refused."