The Archive · 1927

ARMLESS ARTIST'S DEATH

Mr. B. B, Hiles Who Painted with His Mouth After Accident London, July 7.

The death is announced of Mrs Bristol Bertram Hiles, the arniies fist, who painted with his mouth exhibited at the Royal Academy, all the leading exhibitions. Ho }was 55 years of age.

Mr. Hiles lost both arms street accident when he was a boy id trained himself to use a pencil with his mouth. The Bristol Academy of Fine Arts accepted his work when he was 16 and Inter productions received wide at tention and readily Ho was lected in 1908 to be a member of L'Union Internationale des Beaux Arts de Paris—Reuter.

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