International studio (45.1912)

In the Galleries

N THE GALLERIES
The number of exhibitions
now current or announced for
December is equalled only
by their variety, and the enthusiast
must be active to find time to visit
them all, even while finding keen
pleasure in the interest afforded.
One of the leading events of re-
cent date was the opening, on the
2nd of November, of Mr. Henry
Reinhardt’s New York galleries.
There were an unusual number of
important pictures shown, includ-
ing The Flute Player, by Franz
Hals, and two others by Hals, the
charming portrait of Lady Janet
Traill, by Raeburn; two portraits
by Romney, and a very interesting
Teniers. Daubigny, Corot, Millet,
Israels, Inness and Winslow Homer
represent some of the more modern
painters in the collection, with the
famous and fascinating portrait of
Miss Woakes, by Whistler. A land-
scape by Constable, a portrait by
Gainsborough and many other rare
and important canvases contribute
to make the showing at this gallery
quite exceptional and distinctly
worthy of a visit.
Until the 16th of December the
Louis Katz Galleries will continue
to show the “Thumb-Box” Exhi-
bition, consisting of about 750


Courtesy of Henry A. Reinhardt, Esq.
PORTRAIT OF
MISS LILLIAN WOAKES

BY JAMES A. M’NEILL
WHISTLER

paintings in the nature of studies
by over one hundred artists. These exhibitions
prove of perennial popularity, owing, no doubt, to
the usual interest attaching to the informal, un-
studied or unfinished in art, and to the distinct
feeling of potential possibilities which one must
have upon careful consideration of some little
hasty memorandum of what might grow into a

study any of the pencil studies of the period rep-
resented by these great draughtsmen who flour-
ished from 1620 to 1837. Of particular note, from
the points both of rarity and interest, are the por-
traits of Master Charles Walton., by Sir T. Lawrence
(later engraved by Lewis), J.- Downman’s por-
traits of Sir William and Lady Twysden, Miss

great “exhibition picture.” •
Those whose interest lies in the charm of au-

Nott, Mrs. Siddons and the Duchess of Rutland.
One of the most remarkable character sketches

thentic pencil drawings by great masters of paint-
ing should not fail to visit the extraordinary col-
lection of original drawings by Gainsborough,
Lawrence, Reynolds, Cosway, Downman, Gar-
dener, Smart and some others at E. M. Hodg-
kins’s Galleries, recently opened.
The drawings cannot fail to come in the nature
of a revelation to one who has not had occasion to

among the Downman drawings is one of John
Edwin and Miss Mary Wells, a celebrated actor
and actress, appearing in an early play called
“The Agreeable Surprise.” An entire article, in-
deed, might well be written of the drawings now
on exhibition at this gallery, which contain as well
two splendid portraits in oils by Raeburn and one
by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

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