International studio (25.1905)

OME.—Carolus
[ Duran's appoint-
I \ ment as the new
^ Director of the
French Academy at Rome
has given universal satis-
faction in the City. The
Roman art-world gave him
a big reception soon after
his arrival here, and the
King received him recently
at the Quirinal.

" INTERIOR "
naturalistic yet quite in the cinquecento style
and a cast of an Va77/^7- 7Fhi%?72°'. Mr.
Macgillivray's Zara? ZhwZZiZ combines fine design
in the head and shoulders as a mass with delicate
and searching modelling of the details and fine
characterisation, and his marble relief of the refined
head of jPra/a^jar a%7/7y Z77*?^7/;77M7iZ is handled
with becoming subtlety and charm. The work of
Mr. Percy Portsmouth, a young English sculptor
resident in Edinburgh, is also worthy of praise.
His ZZ'TV/l, a naked boy peering at a frog seated
upon his extended hand, is very ably modelled
and finely balanced in design, and two busts are
admirable in character and style. Mr. Birnie
Rhind, Mr. Shannan, Mr. Tweed, Mr. Keilloch
Brown, and Miss Maclaren exhibit sculpture of
interest; and, as already indicated, G. A. Lawson
and D. W. Stevenson are represented by some of
their most important works. J. L. C.
T AMBURG. — We give illustrations ot
]_] pictures by two clever Hamburg artists,
Mr. Franz Nolken and Mr. A. Rosam,
whose work, by reason of its many
good qualities, is attracting the attention of art-
lovers in Germany. Mr. Nolken's colour is bright
and at the same time sober and full of tone and
breadth, whilst his hand is sure in drawing.
W. S.

This is the season for
the private views of the
various studios, and there
are a number of excellent
works shown at them.
Signor Pettiti, whose pic-
tures of the Roman Cam-
pagna are so justly admired
and so well known, has
completed several import-
ant paintings this year.
I was in his studio the
other day, and was much struck by a wonderful
picture of Autumn foliage—great masses of golden-
yellow browns, with water in the foreground. He
has caught, as no one else seems to have done, the
very spirit of the Campagna, and his water-colour
sketches, in greys and browns, or orange and red,
with the clear, wonderful light and atmosphere
of the country close about Rome, are delicious
bits of colouring and full of feeling.

A great many private views were held in the
studios before the opening of the Belle Arti, at
the end of February. Among others, Signor
Gallegos had some lovely things on view at
his studio in the Via Margutta. His work, which
is familiar to so many Londoners from the exam-
ples of it that were exhibited at the Spanish
Exhibition in the Guildhall, shows, as usual, the
wonderful fidelity to detail that is so characteristic
of his pictures of interiors. A lovely bit was the
Choir of S. Francis at Assisi, and equally good
were some studies in Seville. A water-colour called
Zco^T!^ ZMcT* was wonderfully clever. He has
also designed a white marble altar for a church in
Spain, with some delightful figures of bronze angels
to stand on the four corners. Professor Bompiani
had a fine picture of 2%; ZaAZ?cM7*.f zyfZa/sZs' ready
for the exhibition, besides other works.

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