DOI issue:
Nr. 227 (January 1916)
DOI article:Defries, Amelia: The oil paintings of Stephen Haweis
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43460#0231
The Oil Paintings of Stephen Haweis
BATHERS
The oil paintings of stephen
HA WEIS
BY AMELIA DOROTHY DEFRIES
The art of Mr. Haweis will cer-
tainly be divided by the critics of the future
into periods. And this article (with the exception
of Lord Howard de Walden’s two Fijian sketches)
deals only with the work of his first period which
may be said to have ended about 1911. During
this period he painted about forty canvases of
some significance (most of which were exhibited
at the Baillie Gallery in 1911), and a large
number of studies; besides which he gave an
exhibition of delightful little “panel paintings”
at the same galleries in 1912. He has also
painted a few fans on silk, one of which is in
the British Exhibitions of Arts and Crafts, at
the Palais du Louvre (1914), and others at the
Allied Artists’ Association (1914). To some, he
is known only as an etcher, and as such is repre-
sented in the National Gallery, Sydney, and in
the collections of the Dowager Lady Airlie, Lord
BY STEPHEN HAWEIS
Bathurst, Colonel Goff, and those of many private
collectors. He has the rare true feeling for line
etching as opposed to the skilful “black and
white” technique we so often see applied to the
copper plate with a certain meretricious success.
Many of the oil paintings of this period are in
collections of discerning lovers of painting. The
Sapphire Night and The Opal Morning (two lovely
interpretations of immortal Venice) are in the
possession of Lord Howard de Walden and the
Marchioness of Anglesey, respectively. His
Honour Judge Evans, so well known now for
buying the best of the younger painter’s pro-
ductions, possesses two paintings and three fans;
Mr. Konody, art critic of the Observer, some of
the little “panels”; the sculptor, M. Desraelles;
Armand Point, the painter; Mrs. Mabel Dodge
and Charles Stern are other possessors of the
paintings of this period.
Baron de Meyer was Mr. Haweis’ first patron,
while Octave Maus (who discovered Debussy and
so many others who have become famous) invited
Stephen Haweis to exhibit at the “Libre Esthe-
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BATHERS
The oil paintings of stephen
HA WEIS
BY AMELIA DOROTHY DEFRIES
The art of Mr. Haweis will cer-
tainly be divided by the critics of the future
into periods. And this article (with the exception
of Lord Howard de Walden’s two Fijian sketches)
deals only with the work of his first period which
may be said to have ended about 1911. During
this period he painted about forty canvases of
some significance (most of which were exhibited
at the Baillie Gallery in 1911), and a large
number of studies; besides which he gave an
exhibition of delightful little “panel paintings”
at the same galleries in 1912. He has also
painted a few fans on silk, one of which is in
the British Exhibitions of Arts and Crafts, at
the Palais du Louvre (1914), and others at the
Allied Artists’ Association (1914). To some, he
is known only as an etcher, and as such is repre-
sented in the National Gallery, Sydney, and in
the collections of the Dowager Lady Airlie, Lord
BY STEPHEN HAWEIS
Bathurst, Colonel Goff, and those of many private
collectors. He has the rare true feeling for line
etching as opposed to the skilful “black and
white” technique we so often see applied to the
copper plate with a certain meretricious success.
Many of the oil paintings of this period are in
collections of discerning lovers of painting. The
Sapphire Night and The Opal Morning (two lovely
interpretations of immortal Venice) are in the
possession of Lord Howard de Walden and the
Marchioness of Anglesey, respectively. His
Honour Judge Evans, so well known now for
buying the best of the younger painter’s pro-
ductions, possesses two paintings and three fans;
Mr. Konody, art critic of the Observer, some of
the little “panels”; the sculptor, M. Desraelles;
Armand Point, the painter; Mrs. Mabel Dodge
and Charles Stern are other possessors of the
paintings of this period.
Baron de Meyer was Mr. Haweis’ first patron,
while Octave Maus (who discovered Debussy and
so many others who have become famous) invited
Stephen Haweis to exhibit at the “Libre Esthe-
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