International studio (14.1901)

Studio-Talk

PORTION OF A FRIEZE—“THE LIBERAL SHIP”

As to the other sketches, they are equally good
and suggestive. They illustrate a New Canterbury
Tale. Lord Salisbury, out hawking with the owl
of wisdom, and the Lord Chancellor, dressed as
the Wife of Bath, are excellent figures ; and the
manner in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
aided by his horse, defends himself from the
sober ambitions of the last
War Minister could not
well be bettered. The
Duke of Devonshire slum-
bers calmly on a sleeping
horse, so that the leadership
has passed away from him.

It dashes along elsewhere,
at the pioneer end of this
decorative pilgrimage.

the country is distinguished
receive in his work their
most adequate illustration.
He may fairly be said to
have carried further than
almost any of his contem-
poraries the development of
that direct and expressive
style which can be accepted
as the natural outcome of
the Dutch temperament
and the Dutch traditions.
There is always to be per-
ceived in his pictures and
drawings a serious resolve
to use devices of technique
not merely for purposes of
display, but rather for the
embodiment of a certain
sentiment characteristic
both of the man and the
race from which he sprang.
He aimed at a particular
interpretation of the facts
of nature—an interpreta-
tion that should be at the same time unhesitating
in its straightforward assertion and full of tender
poetry. The work he has left reflects to the
utmost the strength of his sturdy personality, but it
is equally memorable for its quiet reserve and its
freedom from any straining after effect. The
strength came to him as part of the inheritance

BY F. CARRUTHERS GOULD

Among the many ad-
mirable artists who are
worthy of places in the
front rank of the modern
Dutch school, there are
few whose claim to be
regarded as masters is as
great as that of James
Maris. Those qualities of
thought and intention by
which the whole art of

PORTION OF A FRIEZE—“THE IRISH BOAT” BY F. CARRUTHERS GOULD

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