Studio: international art (2.1894)

The Photographic Salon

was an achievement by
Mr. Frederick Hollyer, in
which he has conquered,
it would seem, almost in-
superable technical diffi-
culties. In The White
Frock he has placed a girl
at an open door with the
sunlight full on her face,
and yet he has preserved
the whiteness of the face
and the relative tones of
light in the sky and on the
face and dress. His por-
trait of Mr. Walter Crane
is an admirable piece of
work, which by his cour-
tesy we are permitted to
reproduce. Mr. Came-
ron's photograph of Irving
as Becket is well known,
but his portraits of Mrs.
Hoare and Master Wel-
lesley are new and note-
worthy, and in particular
that of Master Henry
Hetherington, a very
charming head. These
we shall illustrate next
month. The Exhibi-
tion was useful in bring-
ing many new artists to
light, but in particular we
are grateful for its reveal-
ing to us the work of Mr.
Craig Annan of Glasgow,

a consummate artist whose

individuality is surprising,

but who seems to have

been quite unknown

before. The variety of

this artist is as remarkable

as his individuality; the

carbon - photographs of

Sheep and Labour are as

distinctly his as the charm-
ing Chrysanthemums, a

quite Rossettian portrait

of a little girl, and the

extremely clever Beach of

Zandvoort, in which he

has avoided the common

and foolish mistake of

allowing a sea-line to cut

a picture in half length-
ways. The admirable

study of Dutch houses

reflected in a canal, we

shall include among

picture illustrations. Mr.

George Davison is an

expert in new methods of

printing on fabric or rough

3 fin6 <THE WHITE FR0CK'" BY FREDERICK II0LLYER- EXHIBITED AT

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC,"SALON