International studio (47.1912)

The Royal Academy Exhibition, igi2

Mr. James Clark’s The Hero, Mr. W. Strang’s Bank
Holiday, Mr. Frank Salisbury’s Childhood, Mr. W. W.
Russell’s The Window, Mr. Edgar Bundy’s The First
Performance of “ The Merry Wives of Windsor?
1599, Mr. Melton Fisher’s The Chinese Coat, Mr.
Richard Jack’s A Rehearsal with Nikisch, and Mr.
F. G. Swaish’s Camargo, all of which make a strong
appeal for attention; and there is a wonderful
colour composition, The Child, by Mr. Tom Mostyn.
Of memorable interest again are the Mother and
Child, by Mr. G. J. Coates; Grandmother’s Ward-
robe, by Mr. G. Phoenix; Books, by Mr. T. C.
Dugdale, and the soundly painted Alterations and
Repairs, by Mr. W. R. S. Stott, all of which illus-
trate well the capacities of young artists who have a
commendable sense of responsibility. The Black-
berry Gathering, by the late Mrs. Stanhope Forbes,
is a good example of the work of an artist who had
charm of manner and true individuality of style;
and the two paintings of interiors, A Kensington
Interior,. by Mr. F. L. Emanuel (purchased under
the Chantrey Trust), and A Studio, by Mr. P. W.
Adam, are both really interesting achievements.
Mr. S. Reid’s Who is Sylvia ? Mr. Margetson’s
A Dream that was not all a Dream, Mr. Fred
Roe’s The Barricade, 1830, Mr. Audley Gunston’s
Washing Day, Mr. Pickering Walker’s Ambuscade,
Mr. Frank Dicksee’s A Nymph, and Sir Lawrence
Alma-Tadema’s Preparations '■ in the Coliseum can
also be noted as helpful to the exhibition.
The landscapes generally are well up to the
average of those which have appeared in previous
exhibitions, and there are a few which rise quite
definitely above the average. Sir Alfred East’s
sumptuous colour arrangement, A Castle in Spain,
and his finely designed and powerfully painted
Under the Wold can be sincerely welcomed; and
with not less sincerity can Sir Ernest Waterlow’s
Sussex, Mr. David Murray’s Music by the Lake,
The Heart of the Trossachs, A Whisper of Winter,
and The Pilgrim’s Path, Mr. Moffat Lindner’s
Rain Clouds, Bosham, and The Maas at Dordrecht,
Mr. J. W. West’s Twilight in Italy, Mr. R. Gwelo
Goodman’s The Walls of England, Mr. Joseph
Longhurst’s Sussex from Surrey, Mr. G. C. Haite’s
The Market, Nice, and the two Alpine subjects, A
Summer Morning and An Autumn Evening, by
Mr. Adrian Stokes, be hailed as things of marked
importance. The vigorous landscapes, Skirt of the
Dunes at Condette, Pas-de-Calais, by Mr. H. W. B.
Davis, and Moonrise: The Dunes, Pas-de-Calais,
by Mr. Hughes-Stanton, take high rank; and
there is an impressive romantic picture, Shadowed,
by the late J. L. Pickering. Mention must also be
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made of Mr. Ayerst Ingram’s sea-piece The Home
Port, of Mr. Mark Fisher’s well-suggested Harlow
Mill, of Mr. La Thangue’s Sussex Common, of
Miss Flora Reid’s Old Rag Market, Bruges, and
Mr. James Henry’s Autumn Morning in Wensleydale
and A Cornish Orchard.
One of the best portraits in the show is Sir
Hubert von Herkomer’s Lord Avebury, an ad-
mirable study of character ; but it is run close by
the same artist’s masculine paintings of Frederick
Henry Norman, Esq., and R. O. Lamb, Esq. Mr.
Glazebrook’s Miss Brooking and Miss Strauss are
charming in their strength and freshness of manner ;
and the Hon. John Collier’s Lord Alverstone, Mrs.
Harold Hessey, and J. Bland-Sutton, Esq., F.R.C.S.,
are thoroughly adequate examples of his practice.
Mr. Cope’s portrait of the Prince of Wales and the
State portrait of the Queen by Mr. W. Llewellyn are
very much better than the general run of official
paintings, and Mr. Osterman’s portrait of the King
of Sweden is particularly agreeable in its easy un-
conventionality. Other portraits which deserve to
be remembered are Mr. Byam Shaw’s amazingly
lifelike full-length of Dion Boucicault, Esq., Mr.
P. A. Laszlo’s Viscount Wendover, Mr. Orpen’s
The Rev. T. T. Gray, Mr. J. J. Shannon’s Mrs.
Henry Barber, Mr. G. S. Watson’s Hilda and
Maggie, and Holies, Son of Major Knox, by Mr.
Ralph Peacock. Mr. Lavery’s La Mort du Cygne :
Anna Pavlova is the best portrait he is showing,
but the picture that represents him most adequately
is an open-air study, The Market Place, Evening.
In the water-colour room the most memorable
things are Sir Alfred East’s In Sicily, and The
Market Place: Taormina, Mr. W. Russell Flint’s
The Happy Hunters and In the Woods of Joyous
Gard, and Mr. L. P. Smythe’s Dans un Grenier;
while other drawings of note are Mr. Byam Shaw’s
Ludlow Bridge, Mr. George Murray’s In Harvest
Time, Mr. Frank Haviland’s Reflections, Miss
Annie French’s “ Why weep ye by the tide, Ladye ? ”
Miss Helen Sinclair’s Bhanavar the Beautiful, and
Mr. Albert Stevens’s The First Snow. The best
pieces of sculpture are Sir George Frampton’s
Protection, Mr. Mackennal’s statue for the Gains-
borough memorial, Mr. Pomeroy’s Earl Curzon op
Kedleston, Mr. Lucchesi’s The Two Voices, Sir W.
Goscombe John’s The late Marquess of Salisbury,
Mr. Drury’s statue of King Edward, and the
exquisite statuette of Mrs. Guy Ridpath by Mr.
Reynolds-Stephens. The sketch model of the
memorial to King Edward by Mr. Mackennal and
the Fountain of the Valkyrs by Mr. Gilbert Bayes
are also of particular interest.