7 OCTOBER 1911, Page 32

PAINTERS AND MYOPIA.

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—From the internal evidence of their pictures it is clear that Turner, Constable, Millet, to quote the first names which occur to me, were all long-sighted men. While the quality of a painter's senses must necessarily control his artistic ex- perience, and limit the possible material of his art, surely in this as in other activities it is upon mental grasp that breadth

of vision depends.—I am, Sir, &c., L. D. L.