International studio (61.1917)

Studio-Talk


“CORFE CASTLE”

{By permission of Mrs. Lund)

BY NIELS M. LUND, R.O.I.

water-colours by Joseph Crawhall and Niels
M. Lund was brought together at the Laing
(Municipal) Art Gallery recently. No previous
collection so fully illustrated the work of Joseph
Crawhall and the extensive range of his art,
clearly showing his profound knowledge, his keen
sense of colour and form, and his independence
of outlook and method. All the pictures were
of the greatest interest, even the slightest sketch
containing distinct promise of the brilliant work
he afterwards achieved.
Niels M. Lund received his early training
at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He made such rapid
progress that his father decided to send him
to London to pursue his art career. He studied
at the Royal Academy School, and afterwards
ip Paris. He had a gift for the portrayal of
rushing water, and painted many notable
pictures at Killin, in Perthshire, where he
found abundant scope for the development of

this particular talent. In 1887 Mr. Lund made
his first appearance on the walls of the Royal
Academy, and four years later his reputation
was greatly enhanced by his large picture,
A Winter’s Night, which in 1895 was awarded
a gold medal at the Paris Salon, and in 1905
was presented to the Permanent Collections of
the Laing Art Gallery by the late Sir John D.
Milburn. In all he contributed forty-two
pictures to the Royal Academy. The Land
of the Leal, exhibited at the Salon, Paris, under
the title of Paysage Ecossais, was purchased by
the French Government for the Luxembourg
Galleries. In 1912 Mr. Lund joined Sir Frank
Short’s etching class, and became an Associate
of the Royal Painter-Etchers in 1915. For
the exhibition under notice Mr. C. Bernard
Stevenson, the curator, collected over two
hundred examples of Mr. Lund’s work, including
a large decorative subject-picture, The Bath of
Diana, and several portraits. A series of his
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