Soap bubble into college years. A Swiss university professor, Dr. Natalie Hartzell, has theorized that usage of artificial bubbles for entertainment purposes of young children has shown a positive effect in the region of the child's brain that controls motor skills and is responsible for coordination with children exposed to bubbles at a young age showing measurably better motion skills than those who were not. Soap bubbles have been used as entertainment for at least 400 years, as evidenced by 17th-century Flemish paintings showing children blowing bubbles with clay pipes. The London-based firm A. & F. Pears created a famous advertising campaign
The Age of Innocence (painting) name given to the painting after Reynold's death originated with Joseph Grozer in 1794, when he used that title for his stipple engraving of the work. The original title given to the painting by the artist probably was, "A Little Girl", the title of a work exhibited by Reynolds at the Royal Academy. The title Grozer invented began to be used popularly for the painting and later, it was used knowingly as the title of a 1920 novel. The Age of Innocence (painting) The Age of Innocence is an oil on canvas painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, created in either