Studio: international art (38.1906)

Technical Hints

Glehn’s TheDinaids, and the’brilliant and vivacious
character study of Mr. Thomas'Hardy (which we re-
produce) by M. J. E. Blanche. Notable among the
landscapes were Mr. Steer’s Chepstow Castle; a fine
example of the work of that genius in landscape
art, Mr. James Charles, of which we give a re-
production, entitled Church at Ana, Capri, Italy,
Richmond, Yorkshire, by Prof. F. Brown, A Moor-
land Village by Mr. David Muirhead, Avignon
from the fields by Bernhard Sickert, and a first-
rate work entitled On the Wye at Chepstow by
Mr. W. Y. MacGregor. Reference should be
made to the sense of romantic colour in the
little canvas, Thatched Cottage, by Mr. Alfred
Hayward and to Mr. James Henry’s beautiful
Surrey Farm. The water-colours and drawings
included six fine examples of the late Mr.
Brabazon’s art, which has always of late been so
noteworthy a feature of the Club’s exhibitions;
a study of Bedouins, by Mr. Sargent; flower-
pieces by Mr. Francis James; Mr. A. W. Rich’s
landscapes, and the remarkable work in etching
of Mr. Muirhead Bone.

Technical hints from the

DRAWINGS OF PAST MASTERS
OF PAINTING. VIII. T. ROW-
LANDSON.

The characteristics of water-colour art in the
eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth
centuries are particularly interesting to the student
of the painter’s technique. The works of Paul
Sandby and others of his time were, frequently,
scarcely more than tinted lead pencil sketches,
the colours having but a slender claim to be con-
sidered naturalistic. Harmony of effect was
especially sought for, and the result obtained was
often entirely satisfactory.

We reproduce this month a water-colour by
Rowlandson, the outline of which has been
sketched, as was habitual with this painter, in
sepia. The restrained, conventional colouring,
and the manifest care displayed in its selection,
give to the drawing a decorative value it probably
would not have possessed had it been truer to
nature. It is especially suggestive to the decorative

“THE HOWE, OXFORDSHIRE” BY CHARLES CONDER

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