International studio (36.1908/1909(1909))

TtVhitelaw Reid), Professor Henry Jackson, the
great ciassicist of Cambridge, Dr. Louis Wald-
stein, the Rev. R. J. CampbeH, and Mr. Aifred East,
A.R.A., and their portraits, with the exception of
Mr. East's, were on view, together with those
of some iadies and one of Mr. Richard Mans-
Aeld, the actor. There is great variety in Mr.
Rouland's work; he has no one formula for aii,
but adapts his technique to the subject. Thus in
some his execution is extremeiy rapid, whiie in
others there is studied eiaboration, an instance of
the latter being the portrait of Dr. Waidstein. But in
none is there the ieast sign of siovenliness or fauity
draughtsmanship. In America Mr. Rouland has
painted the portrait of Mr. Rooseveit, the retiring
President, in the execution of which he spent many
days at the White House; and another notable
portrait is that of the worid-famed inventor,
Thomas Alva Edison, which we reproduce. This
is of particuiar interest, because we beiieve it is
with one exception the oniy one that has been
painted of Mr. Edison.

Our coiour reproduction of Mr. Hornei's
2'% is from the picture recently
exhibited at the Society of Twenty-hve Painters'
Exhibition, which we noticed iast month. It
represents an adaptation of his methods to scenes
different in character from those to which he has
accustomed us, and the decorative qualities of that
method are here peculiarly effective.

At Messrs. Dowdesweii's galieries Miss A.
Bauerie exhibited her water-coiours of babies, and
these recent designs of hers are strengthened by
some precise schoiariy hgure drawing and careful
observation of nature in her backgrounds, quaiities
which shouid iift her aiready deiightful work into
a position of greater importance.
Messrs. Agnew's auturnn exhibition of early
Engiish paintings contained as usuai some works
of great importance, notabiy Gainsborough's
Afczw, Reynolds' <?/ WM/Arrrrf and his zlVz-r.
<M Af27-%73<?%. Tbere were other impor-
tant works by Reynoids, who was to be seen to great
advantage this year; and many admirable Romneys,
notabiy his Both Turner in
.Z?<-<?<r/% and Constabie in smali paintings
were beautifuliy represented.
The Grafton Gaiieries contained iast month many
frne specimens of Fritz Thauiow's work in the
exhibition organised by M. Georges Petit, of
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Paris. There were aiso in the same exhibition
the paintings of H. C. Deipy, a foiiower of the
Barbizon traditions, and M. Chabanian, whose oiis
are more Dutch in character, and who exhibited
some pasteis of rich but perhaps sometimes
insincere effeCt.

The Internationai Copyright Conference con-
ciuded its iabours in Berlin last month, and agreed
to a Convention of go Articles which secures for
artists in common with authors and composers a
very important extension of the rights at present
possessed by them. By the second Article of the
Convention the artistic works which the contracting
countries bind themseives to protect comprise
" works of design, painting, architecture, sculpture,


FORTRAtT OF MRS. ROULAND
BY ORHXrO ROULAND