dels of the boys were merely bits of landscape, such as houses, rivers, clumps of trees and other very prosaic objects, as they were intended chiefly to perfect the class in designing breastworks, walls and fortifications. When Whistler made copies which were far superior to the models, his… … this work was not only well executed, but the proportions of the faces were more accurate and the attitude of the figures far more human. Then the shrewd old in- structor realized that here was an artist being trained for a soldier. Perhaps his encouragement led the young cadet to give up the gun…
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