International studio (35.1908)

The New Gallery

Diana and Actceon, Mr. W. Llewellyn’s Andromeda,
an excellent study of the nude figure, and Mr.
W. Lee Hankey’s characteristic painting, A Peasant
Girl, are all valuable additions to the collection.
Mr. Brangwyn shows a remarkable colour exer-
cise, The Rajah’s Birthday, which can be counted
among the most brilliant of his recent achievements;
it has both power and ingenuity, and a richness of
paint quality which makes it particularly attractive.
The Hon. John Collier’s Under the Arc-Light, a
London street scene, strikes a new note ; it is an
excellent study of a light and shade effect, and it
can be praised not only because it shows shrewd
and thoughtful observation, but because it proves
that there are in the commonplace incidents of
modern life really valuable opportunities for the
artist who can see things in the right way. Mr.
J. W. Godward’s Crytilla, and the two dainty little
costume pieces by Mr. F. Markham Skipworth, the
charming garden subject, Mid Shadowing Roses, by
Mr. Talbot Hughes, the sombre, powerful, and
individual painting, Evening in Brittany, by Mr.
C. W. Bartlett, and the more delicately fanciful
picture, The Swing, graceful, girlish figures in a
finelydesigned landscape,by Mr. George Wetherbee,
have all indisputable claims to attention; and there
is vigorous imagination well applied in War, by

Baron Arild Rosenkrantz, and Lucknow, by Mr.
St. George Hare—two pictures in which the motive
is the same, though there is the widest possible
difference in the manner in which it is treated.
Mr. James Clark’s biblical subject, The Kingdom of
Heaven is like mito Leave?i, does the fullest possible
credit to an artist who has more than ordinary
claims to a place among the chief of our imagina-
tive painters; and a note must also be made of the
little classic figure, Suspense, by Professor Formilli,
Mr. C. E. Halle’s Mischief, Mr. Austen Brown’s
Ploughing by the River, and of the graceful portrait
study, Proud Maisie, by Mr. S. Melton Fisher.
The sculpture is less important than usual, but
there are a few things, like Mr. Albert Toft’s
Spring, and Mr. Basil Gotto’s dainty little Pasto-
ral, and the busts by Mr. Toft, Mr. Gotto, Mr.
Dressier, and Mr. John Tweed, which are of
acceptable merit. It is a matter for some regret
that this branch of art is not more adequately
represented. One fact in connection with the ex-
hibition must be particularly noted — that the
Council of the Academy found in it one of the
two pictures bought this year for the Chantrey
Collection, viz.:—Mr. Hughes-Stanton’s Pasturage
among the Dunes, of which a reproduction is given
on this page. W. K. W.