3-046-965 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A Sketch from Nature, 1872. 'We do not, from our point of view in the scene represented, get a sight of the landscape which Miss Angelina is preparing to depicture in a hasty composition of oil colours; but we have enough to remark in the position of the fair artist herself, with her camp-stool and easel conveniently pitched under the sheltering umbrella, and with her canvas ready fixed, her palette, her paints, and her pencils all placed in due order for use; while her sister Maria, with the last third volume from Mudie's, will sit and bear her company through the long summer afternoon. The presence of a gentleman, whom we recognise as Mr. Poyntz, the accomplished professor of drawing and painting from the neighbouring town, shows that this attempt is one of a course of regular lessons, for which the master will be entitled to remuneration at the rate of half a guinea each. We expect that his pupil will do him credit, and that she will acquire from his instructions a tolerable degree of skill in the graceful art to which her present efforts are devoted; for she looks like a clever girl, and there is an earnest expression in her face'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.