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PI err RES BY ALSTRALl.W ARTISTS. 



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YOUNG ENGLAND. 



Herbert S. Powers heid a most success- 

 ful exhibition of his yiictures in ■Mel- 

 bourne. He is par exccUcnce an animal 

 painter, and contrives to make his horses 

 and dogs live on the can\-as, whether 

 the execution be in oil or water coimn-. 

 He makes a practice of doing l)i)lli, 

 holding that an artist receixes great as 



sislance in the one b\- die demands of 

 the other. Mr. Powers began painting 

 without an\' previous technical instruc- 

 tion, setting down on canvas what he 

 saw in the bush. His studies, when he 

 was ciuali tx'ing \ox a veterinar\- sur- 

 geon, ha\e no doubt stood hini in good 

 stead ill his artistic caree/, ami i)roI>abl\' 



