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Street. Mr. B. G. Tobey, another amateur, has done 

 some creditable things in oil, one of his pictures having 

 been engraved and published in an illustrated work 

 upon Nantucket. Mr. Tobey's studio is at his home 

 on Main Street. Choice specimens of local landscape 

 painting have also been executed by Misses Emma 

 Nickerson and Fannie Macy." 



The compiler exceedingly regrets that want of space 

 compels him to omit a portion of Dr. Jenks's closing 

 remarks, as he desires here to insert that which the 

 doctor's modesty and delicacy have prevented his 

 alluding to. Dr. Arthur E. Jenks, who in his quiet, 

 unassuming way makes no claim to being an artist, 

 has done some choice bits of work in crayon, oil, and 

 even plaster, of which any professional might well be 

 proud. In the summer season he can scarcely meet 

 the demand for his little gems. Some of his plaster 

 medallions have created a decided sensation among 

 collectors of souvenirs at Nantucket. 



Since the above was written the compiler has been 

 informed that Mr. Harry Piatt, a crayon artist of great 

 power well known in Washington, will make his home 

 here during this year. Mr. Piatt needs no praise; his 

 work shows him to be a superior artist in every way, 

 and his pictures are something marvellous in their 

 execution. That Mr. Piatt's work is appreciated is 

 evidenced by the fact that he has made portraits from 

 life of Sir Edward Thornton, Countess Lewenhaupt, 

 Baron Ernst von Mayer, Baron DeArinos, and many 

 others. 



