International studio (14.1901)

Studio- Talk

been presented at Burlington House for some years
past. It is strong in portraits—especially in work by
Mr. J. S. Sargent, Mr. Orchardson, Professor von Her-
komer, and Mr. J. J. Shannon—it includes a very fair
number of good landscapes; and there are to be found
in it a few figure pictures of definite importance. The
best landscapes are Mr. E. A. Waterlow’s The Old
Sandpit, Mr. David Murray’s From Sultry Day to
Summer Storm, Mr. Arnesby Brown’s Morning, Mr.
Yeend King’s The Priory, Christchurch, and Mr. Alfred
East’s delicate and luminous The Citadel, Cairo. The
most memorable of the figure-subjects are Mr. E. A.
Abbey’s dramatic canvas, Crusaders sighting Jerusalem,
Mr. J. W. Waterhouse’s Nvmphs finding the Head of

“glory to the dead”

BY E. ONSLOW FORD, R. A.

Orpheus, Mr. G. Clausen’s A Gleaner,
Mr. J. J. Shannon’s The Flower Girl,
Mr. H. La Thangue’s Gathering
Plums, Mr. G. S. Watson’s The Birth
oj Aphrodite, Mr. Walter Osborne’s
Summer Time, Sir J. D. Linton’s
Thanksgiving, and Mr. G. H. Bough-
ton’s exquisitely-imagined and daintily-
treated Young April, a more than
ordinarily successful example of his
attractive work. The sculpture
galleries present less features of
interest than usual, but there are a

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“CRUSADERS SIGHTING JERUSALEM”

BY E. A. ABBEY, R. A.