Miss Dering Curtois, the clever young artist, comes of an old Lincolnshire family, many members of which have, in one form or another, followed art. Her father, Mr Atwill Curtois, occupied much of his spare time in wood-carving, whilst others of her relatives followed out another branch of design. Miss Curtois special predilictions were shown when, as a child, she exhibited delight in manufacturing little caricatures, which she afterwards coloured - her representation of the Lord Mayor's show in theis manner being considered a great success. Her father, when she was ten years old, put her to learn pencil drawing, and when she had made some progress he allowed her to study water-colour painting. Earnest and diligent in her work, the next step in the young lady's training was the Lincoln School of Art. Here she made her first mark - after a close competition - in being awarded the gold medal in 1884. And then followed what is now so generally considered the necessary finishing course of study in the Parisian ateliers, where she had such masters as Bouguereau, Tone Fleury, Dagnan-Bouveret, and Louis Deschamps.