DOI Heft:
No. 325 (April 1920)
DOI Artikel:Reviews
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21360#0085
REVIEWS
u BEAVER DAM." BY
J. E. H. MACDONALD
(Royal Canadian Aca-
demy)
REVIEWS.
John Thomson of Duddingston, Land-
scape Painter. His Life and Work, with
some Remarks on the Practice, Purpose,
and Philosophy of Art. By Robert W.
Napier, F.R.S.A. (Oliver and Boyd.)
£i ns. 6d. net. Edition de Luxe, £3 3s.
net.—This exhaustive account of the life
and work of Thomson of Duddingston will
be welcomed by the admirers of this early
Scottish landscape-painter. His position
in the art of his country has not up till now
been definitely assured ; but as a result
of this instructive and sympathetic mono-
graph it should be more secure. No one is
better equipped than the author to under-
take such a volume, for he has obviously
made a deep study of his subject and
has accumulated and marshalled a mass
of information, thereby presenting to the
student a comprehensive and valuable con-
tribution to the history of Scottish art. It
is impossible to peruse the 568 pages of
this admirable volume, with its numerous
illustrations, without acquiring some of the
author's enthusiasm for his subject. His
admiration is unbounded ; and so zealous
is he of Thomson's artistic reputation,
more especially in relation to the charge of
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u BEAVER DAM." BY
J. E. H. MACDONALD
(Royal Canadian Aca-
demy)
REVIEWS.
John Thomson of Duddingston, Land-
scape Painter. His Life and Work, with
some Remarks on the Practice, Purpose,
and Philosophy of Art. By Robert W.
Napier, F.R.S.A. (Oliver and Boyd.)
£i ns. 6d. net. Edition de Luxe, £3 3s.
net.—This exhaustive account of the life
and work of Thomson of Duddingston will
be welcomed by the admirers of this early
Scottish landscape-painter. His position
in the art of his country has not up till now
been definitely assured ; but as a result
of this instructive and sympathetic mono-
graph it should be more secure. No one is
better equipped than the author to under-
take such a volume, for he has obviously
made a deep study of his subject and
has accumulated and marshalled a mass
of information, thereby presenting to the
student a comprehensive and valuable con-
tribution to the history of Scottish art. It
is impossible to peruse the 568 pages of
this admirable volume, with its numerous
illustrations, without acquiring some of the
author's enthusiasm for his subject. His
admiration is unbounded ; and so zealous
is he of Thomson's artistic reputation,
more especially in relation to the charge of
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