DOI Heft:
Nr. 333 (February 1925)
DOI Artikel:Flint, Ralph: John N. Willys Collection
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19984#0112
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which ever since its first ap-
pearance at the Royal Academy
in 1824 has been one of the rank-
ing pictures of child-life of the
English school. It is a compo-
sition of the happiest kind, filled
with many a felicitous touch of
childhood charms. Three Rom-
neys give a further glimpse into
that wonderful group of fair
women who sat to these eight-
eenth-century masters and in-
spired so many of their pictorial
flights. " Lady Ramsay " is one
of his nearly full-length por-
traits of lovely young women in
soft white gowns set amid sylvan
shadows. Artful simplicity and
persuasively romantic senti-
bv meindert hob8ema ment bfOTI? this haPPy POr-
trait for which she gave seven
HoPPner's portraits of Mrs. Parkyns (afterwards sittings in the October of 1788. Her husband, Sir
Lady Rancliffe) and the lovely Miss Pringle and George Ramsay, paid forty guineas for it the
Sir Thomas Lawrence's "Portrait of a Boy" are following February, according to the artist's book
the most imposing in this part of the collection, of accounts. A second portrait from his hand is
The large Hoppner shows the heiress of Eltham of "Miss Mills" (afterwards Mrs. Molony), from
Park walking through a verdant English prospect the collection of W. B. Molony of Liltanon, and
dressed in a decollete white gown touched with shown at the Romney Exhibition at the Grafton
gold and wearing in her pow- "portrait of a girl" by velasquez
dered hair a bright green feather.
It is a magnificent Lloppner,
very much in the grand manner,
and decorative in the way that
this English school knew so well.
Until 191 o this portrait had
been a part of the Bunny Park
Collection from the very time
it was painted. The small bust
portrait of Miss Pringle is highly
captivating in its spontaneous
presentation of carefree youth
and native beauty. The almost
full-length Lawrence "Portrait
of a Boy" shows a handsome
child of about eight years in a
plum-colored suit with soft
white collar, golden hair loosely
brushed back, gazing out of the
canvas with frank expression.
The greenish background sets
off admirably this dashingly
painted figure. Another Law-
rence is a small oval sketch of
Emily and Laura Anne Cal-
mady made for the famous
"Calmady Children" portrait
three seventy-two
february i 925
which ever since its first ap-
pearance at the Royal Academy
in 1824 has been one of the rank-
ing pictures of child-life of the
English school. It is a compo-
sition of the happiest kind, filled
with many a felicitous touch of
childhood charms. Three Rom-
neys give a further glimpse into
that wonderful group of fair
women who sat to these eight-
eenth-century masters and in-
spired so many of their pictorial
flights. " Lady Ramsay " is one
of his nearly full-length por-
traits of lovely young women in
soft white gowns set amid sylvan
shadows. Artful simplicity and
persuasively romantic senti-
bv meindert hob8ema ment bfOTI? this haPPy POr-
trait for which she gave seven
HoPPner's portraits of Mrs. Parkyns (afterwards sittings in the October of 1788. Her husband, Sir
Lady Rancliffe) and the lovely Miss Pringle and George Ramsay, paid forty guineas for it the
Sir Thomas Lawrence's "Portrait of a Boy" are following February, according to the artist's book
the most imposing in this part of the collection, of accounts. A second portrait from his hand is
The large Hoppner shows the heiress of Eltham of "Miss Mills" (afterwards Mrs. Molony), from
Park walking through a verdant English prospect the collection of W. B. Molony of Liltanon, and
dressed in a decollete white gown touched with shown at the Romney Exhibition at the Grafton
gold and wearing in her pow- "portrait of a girl" by velasquez
dered hair a bright green feather.
It is a magnificent Lloppner,
very much in the grand manner,
and decorative in the way that
this English school knew so well.
Until 191 o this portrait had
been a part of the Bunny Park
Collection from the very time
it was painted. The small bust
portrait of Miss Pringle is highly
captivating in its spontaneous
presentation of carefree youth
and native beauty. The almost
full-length Lawrence "Portrait
of a Boy" shows a handsome
child of about eight years in a
plum-colored suit with soft
white collar, golden hair loosely
brushed back, gazing out of the
canvas with frank expression.
The greenish background sets
off admirably this dashingly
painted figure. Another Law-
rence is a small oval sketch of
Emily and Laura Anne Cal-
mady made for the famous
"Calmady Children" portrait
three seventy-two
february i 925