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Nr. 173 (July, 1911)
DOI Artikel:The Royal Academy exhibition, 1911
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43447#0055
The Royal Academy Exhibition, ign
of feminine sitters. The most vigorous and charac-
teristic portrait of a man is Sir Hubert von
Herkomer’s Admiral of the Fleet, the Lord Fisher
of Kilverstone; and the most fascinating in its
serenity of style and beauty of technical method is
Mr. Orpen’s Man in Black. Mr. Cope’s painting of
Sir E. J. Poynter, Bt., P.R.A., Mr. Oswald
Birley’s Howard Vyse, Esq., and another portrait
by Mr. Orpen, of Claude E. S. Bishop, Esq., are
worthy of note, and Mr. Sargent’s portrait of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, though it is, perhaps,
not to be reckoned as quite one of his finest things,
is nevertheless a work that commands attention.
A very pleasant portrait study, The Black Scarf, by
Mr. George Henry, is also of importance.
The sculpture-rooms at the Academy look worse
than ever this year, partly because of their obvious
unsuitability for the display of sculpture and partly
because they contain fewer things of special merit
than usual. Sir George Frampton’s Peter Pan
statue is a delightful piece of imaginative work, and
the bronze group, A Royal Game, by Mr. Reynolds-
Stephens—who is also represented by an exquisite
statuette of Mrs. Guv Ridtath—is of singular
beauty; and the statues Nereus and Galatea by
Mr. Pegram, Nausicaa by Mr. Basil Gotto, His
Majesty the King by Mr. Hamo Thornycroft, and
Her Majesty the Queen by Sir George Frampton
are all features of the collection. Mr. Drury’s
admirable busts of the King and Queen and of
King Edward—of whom there' are also busts by
Mr. Brock, Mr. Derwent Wood, and Mr. Bruce-
Joy, as well as a statuette by the Countess Feodora
Gleichen—can be very highly praised, and there
are other contributions by Mr. Mackennal, Mr.
Goscombe John, and Mr. Pomeroy, which have a
full measure of distinction. Indeed, Mr. Macken-
nal’s recumbent effigy of The Late Gen. the Rt.
Hon. Sir Redvers Buller, V.C., G.C.B., Mr.
Goscombe John’s finely handled bust of The Late
Earl of Derby, K.G., and Mr. Pomeroy’s bronze
statute of Sir Francis Bacon are very helpful in
keeping up the standard of quality in the sculpture
of the year. But in the rooms which are devoted
at Burlington House to this important branch of
artistic production it is very difficult to disentangle
the good things or to study them properly when
they are found.
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of feminine sitters. The most vigorous and charac-
teristic portrait of a man is Sir Hubert von
Herkomer’s Admiral of the Fleet, the Lord Fisher
of Kilverstone; and the most fascinating in its
serenity of style and beauty of technical method is
Mr. Orpen’s Man in Black. Mr. Cope’s painting of
Sir E. J. Poynter, Bt., P.R.A., Mr. Oswald
Birley’s Howard Vyse, Esq., and another portrait
by Mr. Orpen, of Claude E. S. Bishop, Esq., are
worthy of note, and Mr. Sargent’s portrait of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, though it is, perhaps,
not to be reckoned as quite one of his finest things,
is nevertheless a work that commands attention.
A very pleasant portrait study, The Black Scarf, by
Mr. George Henry, is also of importance.
The sculpture-rooms at the Academy look worse
than ever this year, partly because of their obvious
unsuitability for the display of sculpture and partly
because they contain fewer things of special merit
than usual. Sir George Frampton’s Peter Pan
statue is a delightful piece of imaginative work, and
the bronze group, A Royal Game, by Mr. Reynolds-
Stephens—who is also represented by an exquisite
statuette of Mrs. Guv Ridtath—is of singular
beauty; and the statues Nereus and Galatea by
Mr. Pegram, Nausicaa by Mr. Basil Gotto, His
Majesty the King by Mr. Hamo Thornycroft, and
Her Majesty the Queen by Sir George Frampton
are all features of the collection. Mr. Drury’s
admirable busts of the King and Queen and of
King Edward—of whom there' are also busts by
Mr. Brock, Mr. Derwent Wood, and Mr. Bruce-
Joy, as well as a statuette by the Countess Feodora
Gleichen—can be very highly praised, and there
are other contributions by Mr. Mackennal, Mr.
Goscombe John, and Mr. Pomeroy, which have a
full measure of distinction. Indeed, Mr. Macken-
nal’s recumbent effigy of The Late Gen. the Rt.
Hon. Sir Redvers Buller, V.C., G.C.B., Mr.
Goscombe John’s finely handled bust of The Late
Earl of Derby, K.G., and Mr. Pomeroy’s bronze
statute of Sir Francis Bacon are very helpful in
keeping up the standard of quality in the sculpture
of the year. But in the rooms which are devoted
at Burlington House to this important branch of
artistic production it is very difficult to disentangle
the good things or to study them properly when
they are found.
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