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Nr. 161 (July, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Manson, James Bolivar: The paintings of Mr. William Rothenstein
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0065
Mr. William Rothenstein's Paintings
"READING THE BOOK OF ESTHER" BY WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN
{In the possession of C. L. Rothenstein, Esq.)
At the same time he sent over to England his
picture, Girl in an 1830 Bonnet, which was shown
at the New English Art Club, where he still con-
tinues to exhibit.
In Paris Rothenstein produced a number of
drawings of distinguished French artists and
authors; these attracted considerable attention,
and gained him immediate reputation, which hap-
pily suggested those series of English lithographic
portrait-drawings which have now acquired a
national, and in some cases historic, importance.
During the year 1894 he painted his virile
portrait group of Furse, Steer, " Max," Sickert,
and MacColl, a work showing a keen grasp of*
individual character and an instinctive sense of
composition. In the following year he exhibited
four pictures at the New English, Porphyria,
Souvenir of Seville, The Red Skirt, Portrait of
■R. B. Cunninghame Graham, and at the Society
of Portrait Painters, of which he was once a
member, he showed his own portrait. His por-
trait of Albert Toft, The Sculptor, was exhibited
at this Society's show in 1096, and it has since
found a place in the Bremen Permanent Collection.
The picture shows the most delicate art in a
representation of a subject of every-day occurrence.
It is simple, natural, and satisfying.
To the following year (1897) belong Vezelay
Cathedral (Baring Collection) and The Cheap
fack (Staats Forbes Collection), both of which
were exhibited at the New English. That year
also witnessed the production of the twenty-four
"English Portraits," which include Hardy, Shaw,
Bridges, Henry James, Sargent, and besides these
he drew portraits of Swinburne, Leslie Stephen,
John Morley, Zangwill, Alfred Russel Wallace,
Wells, W. H. Hudson, and many others. The
" English Portraits" were afterwards followed by
twelve "Manchester Portraits," the "Liber Jun-
iorum," and the "French Set." His portrait of
A Young Man (Augustus John), now in the
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and his portrait of
"READING THE BOOK OF ESTHER" BY WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN
{In the possession of C. L. Rothenstein, Esq.)
At the same time he sent over to England his
picture, Girl in an 1830 Bonnet, which was shown
at the New English Art Club, where he still con-
tinues to exhibit.
In Paris Rothenstein produced a number of
drawings of distinguished French artists and
authors; these attracted considerable attention,
and gained him immediate reputation, which hap-
pily suggested those series of English lithographic
portrait-drawings which have now acquired a
national, and in some cases historic, importance.
During the year 1894 he painted his virile
portrait group of Furse, Steer, " Max," Sickert,
and MacColl, a work showing a keen grasp of*
individual character and an instinctive sense of
composition. In the following year he exhibited
four pictures at the New English, Porphyria,
Souvenir of Seville, The Red Skirt, Portrait of
■R. B. Cunninghame Graham, and at the Society
of Portrait Painters, of which he was once a
member, he showed his own portrait. His por-
trait of Albert Toft, The Sculptor, was exhibited
at this Society's show in 1096, and it has since
found a place in the Bremen Permanent Collection.
The picture shows the most delicate art in a
representation of a subject of every-day occurrence.
It is simple, natural, and satisfying.
To the following year (1897) belong Vezelay
Cathedral (Baring Collection) and The Cheap
fack (Staats Forbes Collection), both of which
were exhibited at the New English. That year
also witnessed the production of the twenty-four
"English Portraits," which include Hardy, Shaw,
Bridges, Henry James, Sargent, and besides these
he drew portraits of Swinburne, Leslie Stephen,
John Morley, Zangwill, Alfred Russel Wallace,
Wells, W. H. Hudson, and many others. The
" English Portraits" were afterwards followed by
twelve "Manchester Portraits," the "Liber Jun-
iorum," and the "French Set." His portrait of
A Young Man (Augustus John), now in the
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and his portrait of