HENRY B. SNELL has contributed largely to the art of water colour painting. His work is beautiful in tone and composition. He most always uses a scrub method for which he is largely responsible, being its leading exponent both in England and in America. His work has great depth of colour and reflects a lumi nous feeling of light ; edges are softened, thereby regaining the decorative sense of paint which was lost in a hard rendering of things. Snell was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, in 1858.
He has taught painting for many years and has had a great in fluence on the artist of the present time. He was one of a younger group of painters who broke away from the American Water Color Society to form the New York Water Color Club.