International studio (23.1904)

The Royal Academy

and Butterflies by Mr. Charles Sims. These are
all prominent in the show, and do the fullest credit
to the artists by whom they were produced.
At the head of the portrait-painters stands Mr.
Orchardson, whose picture of Sir Samuel Montagu
is the achievement of an unquestionable master, so
fine is it in its technical qualities and in its con-
summate ease of expression. But very nearly the
same level is attained by Mr. J. S. Sargent, Mr.
C. W. Furse, Mr. W. Llewellyn, and a few others
among the exponents of this class of practice.
Mr. Sargent amply makes up for the comparative
failure of his work last year by the brilliancy of
his portraits of The Countess of Lathom, The
Duchess of Sutherland, Mrs. Wertheimer, and
Major-General Wood, US. Army, all of which are
in his most admirable manner. Mr. Furse puts
beyond dispute his right to election as an Associate
by the exceptional power of his canvases, The
Lilac Gown, Diana of the Upla?ids, and Sir Francis
Mowatt, G.C.B., some of the strongest and most
individual works he has ever exhibited; and Mr.
Llewellyn, with his group of Julia and Rosie,
Daughters of W. Harrison Cripps, Esq., takes his
place triumphantly among the very few men in this
country who are at the same time fine executants
and masters of style. This picture is certainly one
of the best in the exhibition. Of special note are
Professor von Herkomer’s portraits of The Right
Ho?i. Joseph Chamberlain, and The Lord Chief
Baron of Lreland; they show how admirably he
responds to the stimulus afforded by a sitter of a
particularly strong personality. Mr. J. J. Shannon’s
best picture is the charming half-length of Miss
Gladys Raphael, but his group of Lorna and
Dorothy, Daughters of W. Heward Bell, Esq., and
his portraits of Sir William Emerson and Mr.
Martin Harvey as “ Sidney Carton,” are also
memorable; and there is clever characterisation
in Mr. Solomon’s three-quarter length of The Earl
Cadogan, K.G. To the list of able performances
can be added Mr. Arthur Flacker’s W. Goscombe
John, Esq., A.R.A.; Mr. W. W. Russell’s Mrs.
W. Russell; Mr. H. de T. Glazebrook’s Mr.
Justice Bigham and Miss Ruby Lindsay; Mr.
Charles Kerr’s Aim'ce, Daughter of Sir Rupert
Clarke, Bart. ; Mr. R. Jack’s Mrs. Percy Graham ;
Mr. Harold Speed’s William Hughes, Esq.; Mr.
J. H. F. Bacon’s M. H. Spielmann, Esq., and
T. P. O'Connor, Esq., M.P.
There is quite an array of good landscapes and
pictures of open-air subjects. Mr. East shows four,
of which the Morning at Montreuil and The End
of the Vintage: Rhone Valley most decisively illus-

trate his wonderful appreciation of Nature’s beauties,
and his splendid feeling for decorative arrangement;
Sir E. A. Waterlow two, A Showery Summer Day
and Bolton Castle, Yorkshire, which have especial
delicacy of atmospheric quality; and .Mr. David
Murray his usual four honest transcriptions of
well-chosen subjects. Not less important are
Mr. Aumonier’s broad and effective The Border-
land, a canvas of superb quality; and Mr. D. Far-
quharson’s Full Moon and Spring Tide, a very
ably studied and painted night-effect. These two
are decidedly to be counted among the pictures of
the year, and with them must be classed Mr. Bough-
ton’s Frosty Night, a marvellous record of acute
observation and a particularly subtle exercise in
low tones of colour. Mr. Arnesby Brown’s pas-
torals, The Bridge and Hay Harvest, are fascinating
notes of delicate aerial effect; and much praise is
also due to Mr. Clausen’s Willow Trees at Sunset,
Mr. A. E. Proctor’s Market Morning, Mr. W. J.
Donne’s Golden Dawn, Mr. J. Coutts Michie’s
charmingly sympathetic Autumn Evening, Mr. J.
Buxton Knight’s The Peace and Quiet oj Chorley
JVood, Mr. James Henry’s October Morning, Mr.
R. W. Allan’s The Pitiless Sea, Mr. J. L. Pickering's
A Life’s Byway, Mr. Westley Manning’s Norfolk,
Mr. G. C. Haite’s Venetian Fruit Stall, Mr. E.
Stott’s The Old Barge, to the two riverside subjects
by M. Thaulow, and to the ambitious canvas,
Timber Hauling in the New Forest, by Miss Kernp-
. Welch. Mr. Dollman’s Famine is, apart from its
living interest, remarkable as a study of desolation.
The sculpture, if not on the whole quite so
interesting as it has been in recent years, is in
some instances of exceptional strength. Such
examples as Mr. Pegram’s Sibylla Fatidica, Mr.
Pomeroy’s Canada and The late Dr. Temple, Mr.
Brock’s Brigadier-General John Nicholson and The
late Lord Russell of Killowen, Mr. G. Frampton’s
St. George, Mr. Goscombe John’s model for the
Liverpool Regiment memorial, Mr. Mackennal’s
The Dancer, and the reredos by Mr. W. Reynolds
Stephens, have special claims to notice; and there
are other contributions of very distinguished merit
by Mr. Alfred Gilbert, Mr. Drury, Mr. Basil Gotto,
Mr. Derwent Wood, Mr. Lynn Jenkins, Mr. Hope-
Pinker, Mr. J. M. Swan, and Mr. Roscoe Mullins.
A few good things are to be found in the water-
colour and black-and-white rooms, notably the
drawings by Mr. Reginald Barratt, Mr. C. J. Wat-
son, Mr. A. Rackham, and Prof, von Herkomer;
and the miniatures by Mrs. Emslie, Mr. Alyn
Williams, Miss D. Holme, Mrs. Llewellyn, and
Mr. E. Borough Johnson.

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