International studio (48.1913)

David Muirhead


“ ENGELBREKT” (a SWEDISH MEDIAEVAL HERO). MODELLED BY ANDERS ZORN

David muir-
head, LAND¬
SCAPE AND
FIGURE PAINTER.
BY FRANK W.
GIBSON.
A strong love of the
country is natural to many
painters and also to those
who patronise painting.
There is a fellow-feeling
with both for trees with
their colour and shade, for
distance and space in skies
and clouds, or for sun-
light on grass and water.
Amongst landscape painters
there are some who have
had something to say, and
encouraged by apprecia-
tion and worldly success
have ventured to state
it as persistently as they
can. Constable is a

firm fullness of form of the magnificently modelled
charger. Zorn has thought of the statue as erected
in monumental form in front of the Riksdag House
in Stockholm. Whether this idea will ever become
a reality is more than un¬
certain ; unfortunately so,
for, if this delightful piece
of sculpture, as a monu¬
ment, fulfilled the promise
of its present form—a
thing which, of course, it
is somewhat difficult to
decide—then one of the
most beautiful but puri-
tanically unadorned open
spaces in the world would
be filled with a work
worthy alike of the spot
itself and of Sweden’s most
celebrated artist. A. G.

Mr. W. G. von Glehn’s
picture New England, which
was reproduced in colour
m our June number, has
been purchased under the
Felton Bequest for the Mel-
bourne National Gallery.

past example of this theory, and certainly justi-
fied himself in the end. Mr. David Muirhead is
a living example of one of those artists who have
shared Constable’s love of landscape, with its


“the avenue”

BY DAVID MUIRHEAD

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