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Studio-Talk
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Studio- Talk
all sorts of sights, can sum up the individual traits
as the portraitist of ladies and gentlemen, can paint
peasants, animals, rococo scenes, the female nude,
and plein-air effects and tries many methods; we
seek his character but always encounter his
aestheticism. J. J.
BRUSSELS.—We give some reproductions
of the work of the celebrated painter
Henriette Ronner, whose studies and
paintings were to be seen recently on
exhibition at the Cercle Artistique of Brussels.
Henriette Knip (her maiden name) was born at
Amsterdam in 1821 ; her father, himself an artist
of repute, was the son of a painter, and both her
brother and one of her sisters painted also.
Hence it is not surprising that Mme. Ronner’s
vocation should have been marked out for her
from infancy, and in fact she made her first
artistic debut at Diisseldorf when only fifteen years
of age. In 1850 she married and came to live in
Brussels, where she died recently. She owed her
earliest successes to her studies of dogs, “but,”
writes one of her biographers, Henri Havard, “ it
happened that one day a cat strayed into the
studio and aroused her curiosity by its unfamiliar
attitudes and its startled glances, gradually absorbed
her attention and finally achieved the conquest of
the artist. Soon she submitted to the tyranny of
the intruder to the extent of devoting all her time
and all her ability henceforward to a study of the
animal’s attitudes and characteristics. Mme. Ronner
has left a permanent record of all the peculiar
traits, all those subtleties of expression, all the sly
and malicious postures which form a never-ceasing
source of interest and amusement to the observer,
and for this we owe her thanks.” Two of the
artist’s children have adopted artistic careers:
Alfred Ronner, who died unfortunately before his
talents had achieved their full development, and
Alice Ronner, who is decidedly one of our finest
painters of still-life subjects, and of whose work we
give a reproduction. She has technical ability of
a very high order, her skill in composition, her
drawing and her colour are remarkable, and all
her work has an attractiveness that is in truth quite
masterly. F. K.
STILL-LIFE
160
BY MLLE. ALICE RONNER
all sorts of sights, can sum up the individual traits
as the portraitist of ladies and gentlemen, can paint
peasants, animals, rococo scenes, the female nude,
and plein-air effects and tries many methods; we
seek his character but always encounter his
aestheticism. J. J.
BRUSSELS.—We give some reproductions
of the work of the celebrated painter
Henriette Ronner, whose studies and
paintings were to be seen recently on
exhibition at the Cercle Artistique of Brussels.
Henriette Knip (her maiden name) was born at
Amsterdam in 1821 ; her father, himself an artist
of repute, was the son of a painter, and both her
brother and one of her sisters painted also.
Hence it is not surprising that Mme. Ronner’s
vocation should have been marked out for her
from infancy, and in fact she made her first
artistic debut at Diisseldorf when only fifteen years
of age. In 1850 she married and came to live in
Brussels, where she died recently. She owed her
earliest successes to her studies of dogs, “but,”
writes one of her biographers, Henri Havard, “ it
happened that one day a cat strayed into the
studio and aroused her curiosity by its unfamiliar
attitudes and its startled glances, gradually absorbed
her attention and finally achieved the conquest of
the artist. Soon she submitted to the tyranny of
the intruder to the extent of devoting all her time
and all her ability henceforward to a study of the
animal’s attitudes and characteristics. Mme. Ronner
has left a permanent record of all the peculiar
traits, all those subtleties of expression, all the sly
and malicious postures which form a never-ceasing
source of interest and amusement to the observer,
and for this we owe her thanks.” Two of the
artist’s children have adopted artistic careers:
Alfred Ronner, who died unfortunately before his
talents had achieved their full development, and
Alice Ronner, who is decidedly one of our finest
painters of still-life subjects, and of whose work we
give a reproduction. She has technical ability of
a very high order, her skill in composition, her
drawing and her colour are remarkable, and all
her work has an attractiveness that is in truth quite
masterly. F. K.
STILL-LIFE
160
BY MLLE. ALICE RONNER