International studio (32.1907)

The New Gallery

which keeps up its vitality, there are several which
can be praised without any reservations. Sir
George Reid’s magnificent character studies of
The Very Rev. Principal Robert H. Story, D.D.,
and Sir Charles B. Logan, LL.D, are wholly
acceptable examples of his powers at their best;
Mr. W. Logsdail’s full length of a lady in black
is vigorously handled and has a remarkable degree
of vitality ; Mr. R. Jack’s masculine representation
of Arthur J. Ryle, Esq., has real distinction of
manner; and Mr. J. J. Shannon’s prettily arranged
and pleasantly individual portrait study, The Silver
Ship, is certainly one of the best things he is
exhibiting this year. His Capt. Josceline Bagot
is also to be much commended. Mr. Sargent’s
large full length of The Rev. Edmond Warre, D.D.,
is dignified and impressive, and is certainly not
lacking in character, and his smaller picture of
Mrs. Harold Harmsivorth is very
cleverly painted, though it inclines
a little towards prettiness. Of
excellent quality, too, are Mr.

George Henry’s Mrs. Innes, Mr.

G. Spencer Watson’s Arthur cL
Beckett Terrell, Esq., Mr. W.

Llewellyn’s Constance, wife of the
Rev. Arthur Luckock,. and Mollie,

Daughter of Campbell S. Holberton,

Esq., the Hon. John Collier’s Pro-
fessor Arthur Schuster, Mr. Har-
rington Mann’s Kathleen, Mr. H.

Harris Brown’s The Hon. Mrs.

Alfred Lyttelton, and Professor von
Herkomer’s robust and well under-
stood three-quarter length of Sir
Richard Biddulph Martin, and there
is by Mr. Percy F. S. Spence a
portrait of The Right Hon. fohn
Burns, M.P., which takes high rank
as an able record of a characteristic
type.

The figure pictures of exceptional
importance are much less numerous.

Sir James Linton’s medireval sub-
ject, The Admonition, has all his
accustomed soundness of method,
and is memorable especially for its
fine treatment of rich textures. Mr.

Harry Becker’s episode from the
history of the town of Colchester
is good in colour and is painted
with excellent breadth ; Lady Alma-
Tadema’s Love at the Mirror is very
charming in its daintiness of senti-

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ment and refinement of tone; and Mr. W.
Llewellyn’s Confirmation is quite the most delight-
ful suggestion of the dainty grace of girlhood which
he has exhibited for many years. Mr. C. W. Bart-
lett’s Festival Dance, Mr. Austen Brown’s At the
Window, Mr. F. M. Skipworth’s The Golden Butterfly
and The Embroidered Panel, Mr. F. S. Anderton’s
Jessica, Mr, S. Melton Fisher’s delicate little
nude, The Wood Nymph, and Mr. James Clark’s
magnificent arrangement of sumptuous colour, The
Sower of the Good Seed, are all valuable additions
to the collection, and there are two decorative
panels by Mr. C. E. Halle which must be noted.
The best of the pictures in which figures are com-
bined with landscape are Mr. W. Lee Hankey’s
admirably painted rustic subjects, The Goose Girl
and An Unimportant Task, the low-toned garden
scene, Perfumed Twilight, by Mr. Talbot Hughes,

“CONFIRMATION” BY W. LLEWELLYN