DOI Heft:
No. 33 (December, 1895)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: On the work of J. Walter West
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17295#0153
The Work of J. Walter West
sketching clubs in London for An Intruder, repre- would bring him an immediate return. So his
senting a collie dog chased from a field by a school work had to be followed in the intervals of
number of horses. This subject became his first other engagements, and his attendances in the
Academy picture in the following spring under the Academy life school were only possible when he
title of The Repulse of the Enemy, and is now in the happened for the moment not to be busy else-
collection of Sir James Reckitt. where, or when the presence of some particularly
At Burlington House he spent a period of three popular Academician as visitor made it worth his
years in such close and attentive study—gaining while to put aside his own home work for the sake
A STUDY FROM
LIFE. BY J.
WALTER WEST
meanwhile a medal for a drawing of a head from
life—that he was able to begin work on his own
account, and to practise with profit to himself, as
soon as this term was over. During his second
term in the Academy schools his attendances were
necessarily less regular. As his funds had been
dwindling during his period of training, there was
need for him now, as he still adhered to his resolve
that the expenses of his art education should fall
on no one but himself, to set himself to do what
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of valuable hints and useful criticism. He ranged
at this time over a fairly wide field, and was ready
to attempt any branch of art practice that happened
to appeal to his artistic instincts. Portraits, subject
pictures, etchings and mezzotints chiefly occupied
him, and brought him popularity in a higher degree
and with greater rapidity than is usual in the case
of young artists.
Perhaps this popularity was partly due to the
judgment with which Mr. West chose subjects that
sketching clubs in London for An Intruder, repre- would bring him an immediate return. So his
senting a collie dog chased from a field by a school work had to be followed in the intervals of
number of horses. This subject became his first other engagements, and his attendances in the
Academy picture in the following spring under the Academy life school were only possible when he
title of The Repulse of the Enemy, and is now in the happened for the moment not to be busy else-
collection of Sir James Reckitt. where, or when the presence of some particularly
At Burlington House he spent a period of three popular Academician as visitor made it worth his
years in such close and attentive study—gaining while to put aside his own home work for the sake
A STUDY FROM
LIFE. BY J.
WALTER WEST
meanwhile a medal for a drawing of a head from
life—that he was able to begin work on his own
account, and to practise with profit to himself, as
soon as this term was over. During his second
term in the Academy schools his attendances were
necessarily less regular. As his funds had been
dwindling during his period of training, there was
need for him now, as he still adhered to his resolve
that the expenses of his art education should fall
on no one but himself, to set himself to do what
140
of valuable hints and useful criticism. He ranged
at this time over a fairly wide field, and was ready
to attempt any branch of art practice that happened
to appeal to his artistic instincts. Portraits, subject
pictures, etchings and mezzotints chiefly occupied
him, and brought him popularity in a higher degree
and with greater rapidity than is usual in the case
of young artists.
Perhaps this popularity was partly due to the
judgment with which Mr. West chose subjects that