International studio (23.1904)

Studio-Talk


SETTEE AND WRITING TABLE

DESIGNED BY G. M. ELLWOOD
EXECUTED BY J. S. HENRY

with truth and subtlety
the peculiarities of atmo-
spheric effect which make
the country fascinating
to painters. In his
slighter sketches—in such
drawings as Gizeh, near
Cairo, from the River;
Nile Craft, Gizeh, and
River Etitrance to the
Cataract Hotel, Assouan
— he showed, perhaps,
the best of his powers;
but he can be almost
as highly praised for his
notes of colour like the
Gebelahmar, and for atmo-
spheric records like From
the Foot of the Pyramids,
looking East.

Painters can be commended for its
adequacy as a representation of what
is best in the modern revival of this
form of art practice. Some care has
evidently been taken to keep out of it
work which is inefficient or incorrect
in character, and the result is that
the collection brought together is more
than usually convincing. The best
miniatures are those by Mr. Alyn
Williams, Mr. J. J. Josephi, Mr. C. J.
Hobson, Mr. C. W. Quinnell, Miss F.
White, Miss H. Myers, and Miss A.
Muspratt; and there are, besides, some
pictures on a small scale by Mr. H.
Clarence Whaite, Mr. Briton Riviere,
Mr. John Parker, Mr. E. J. Gregory,
and Sir W. B. Richmond, and interest-
ing drawings by Mr. Hal Hurst and Sir
E. J. Poynter.

Mr. John Varley’s recent exhibition
of water-colour drawings of Egypt, at
the Hanover Gallery, deserves to be re-
membered as an excellent display of
the capacity of an artist who has a
thorough understanding of his medium
and knows how to render nature per-
suasively. He suggests the character of
Egyptian scenery well, and he realises


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