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The Royal Academy Exhibition, ign

convincing his subtle painting of The Taj Mahal,
Agra, and Sir Ernest Waterlow’s delicate feeling for
colour and qualities of atmosphere give a particular
attractiveness to his study of expansive distance, A
Western Valley. Mr. David Murray’s picture of a
rough sea under a lowering sky is markedly able,
and his small Maggiore; Silver Grey can be
heartily praised for its beauty of colour; Mr.
Hughes Stanton’s Fort St. Andre, Villeneuve-les-
Avignon, and even more his Moonrise, Pas-de-
Calais, are entirely acceptable as judicious trans-
criptions of nature; Sir Alfred East’s Rivington
Water, A Lancashire Valley, and the excellent
note of sumptuous colour, A Spanish Landscape,
have all his accustomed dignity of decorative effect
and individuality of style ; and The Waterfall by
Mr. Sargent is one of his most vivid and domi-
nating translations of accurately observed facts.
Attention is also due to pictures of such definite
importance as The River's Toil by Mr. J. L.
Pickering, Golden Grain by Mr. Alfred Hartley,
Night: Tangier by Mr. Lavery, April by Mr.
Lamorna Birch, The Heart of Somerset by Mr.
Alfred Parsons, The Forest Road by Mr. R. Vicat
Cole, Amsterdam by Mr.
Moffat Lindner, Ln the Heart
of the Alps by Mr. Adrian
Stokes, A Thames-side Haven
by Mr. L. Burleigh Bruhl,
The Borrowdale Valley by
Mr. R. Gwelo Goodman, and
Tn the Silver Morning Sea by
Mr. S. Reid ; and to the three
remarkable tone and colour
studies of London at night
which have been contributed
by Mr. Hacker.
Unstinted praise must be
given to the magnificent pic¬
ture, The Drove, a group of
cattle in a landscape, by Mr.
Arnesby Brown, and his
March Morning: Chelsea is
also a very welcome contri¬
bution. Mr. Clausen’s Prop¬
ping the Rick s an excellently
handled pastoral subject; and
Mr. H. H. La Thangue’s
Ltalian Garden, Mr. Briton
Riviere’s A Forest Pool, Mr.
W. L. Wyllie’s New Zealand's
Gift to the Old Country, Mr.
Sargent’s The Loggia, Miss
Kemp Welch’s The Riders,
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Mr. E. A. Hornel’s A Spring-time Rondelay, Mr. W.
Ayerst Ingram’s The Channel, and The Ford by
Mr. A. J. Munnings, can all be accounted as things
of interest. The Sonnet, a large open-air subject
by Mr. Harold Knight, has a vividness of illumina-
tion that is not unpleasing ; but Mrs. Knight’s work-
ing out of a similar problem of sunlight, Daughters
of the Sun, is merely an ambitious failure; it is
curiously wrong in colour and in management of
tone relations, and in its straining after effect solidity
and strength of construction have been lost and
all beauty of composition has been sacrificed.
One of the most attractive portraits in the show
is Mr. J. J. Shannon’s Lady Hindlip, a picture
charmingly designed and painted with delightful
spontaneity and grace; but Mr. W. Llewellyn’s
Viscountess Villiers, Mr. Hacker’s Miss Sophie
Kleinwort, Mr. Fred Yates’s Mrs. Howard Fletcher,
Mr. Solomon J. Solomon’s The Countess oj
Harewood, Mr. Frank Dicksee’s The Marchioness
oj Ailesbury, Mr. Glazebrook’s Mrs. Dixon, Mr.
Harold Speed’s Mrs. George Alexander, and Helen,
Daughter of Charles Chalmers, Esq., by Mr. Frank
Bramley are also quite convincing representations


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