DOI issue:
No. 37 (April, 1896)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0189
Studio-Talk
has also been arranged that the
Society's next annual exhibition
will be an " open" one, so that
outsiders can contribute work,
and the exhibition will be held
in the Glasgow Institute Galleries
in the autumn.
Local painters have contri-
buted more pictures this year
than usual to the exhibition of
the Royal Academy, in fact,
many of them have sent im-
portant canvases, and it is to be
hoped the hanging committee
will give these pictures proper
consideration. Prominent among
the pictures sent from here are
a portrait group by John Lavery ;
a figure and landscape subject,
entitled Flora, by Alexander
Roche ; landscapes by Grosvenor
Thomas and Wellwood Rattray ;
a figure composition and portrait
by Harrington Mann, and a de-
lightful water-colour by George
Henry.
PORTRAIT OF MISS LETTICE FAIRFAX BY F. M. SKIPWORTH
Sir George Reid, P.R.S.A.,
has purchased two important
pictures by Glasgow painters
for Colonial galleries. One is
the large Idyll by Alexander
Roche, a semi-classical subject
which shows a group of figures
by the side of a stream which
runs through a stretch of pasture
lands, while away in the distance
are woodlands and farmsteads.
past the phantom ship, on the deck of which are The second picture is by George Henry, and is
Death and Life contending for him. The colour called Rowans, showing some young girls in a
arrangement is cleverly managed, and the story is woodland gathering bright coloured berries. It
dramatically told. is a characteristic picture, displaying well the artist's
beautiful sense of colour and masterly technique.
LASGOW. —The members of the D- M-
Royal Scottish Water-colour Society
have had a busy time of it lately ^-DINBURGH.—In local art circles here
as, following on their annual elec- I i the general interest has been kept
tion of new members, when G. I ' alive by quite a number of events
Naismith Langlands and Miss Wyper were elected, . such as, first, the election of five
they have had a special business meeting at Lin- associates, Messrs. John Lavery,
lithgow to elect two honorary members, to wit, Sir painter, W. G. Stevenson, sculptor, H. J. Blanc,
John Millais, P.R.A., and J. W. North, A.R.A. It William Leiper and John Honeyman, architects,
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has also been arranged that the
Society's next annual exhibition
will be an " open" one, so that
outsiders can contribute work,
and the exhibition will be held
in the Glasgow Institute Galleries
in the autumn.
Local painters have contri-
buted more pictures this year
than usual to the exhibition of
the Royal Academy, in fact,
many of them have sent im-
portant canvases, and it is to be
hoped the hanging committee
will give these pictures proper
consideration. Prominent among
the pictures sent from here are
a portrait group by John Lavery ;
a figure and landscape subject,
entitled Flora, by Alexander
Roche ; landscapes by Grosvenor
Thomas and Wellwood Rattray ;
a figure composition and portrait
by Harrington Mann, and a de-
lightful water-colour by George
Henry.
PORTRAIT OF MISS LETTICE FAIRFAX BY F. M. SKIPWORTH
Sir George Reid, P.R.S.A.,
has purchased two important
pictures by Glasgow painters
for Colonial galleries. One is
the large Idyll by Alexander
Roche, a semi-classical subject
which shows a group of figures
by the side of a stream which
runs through a stretch of pasture
lands, while away in the distance
are woodlands and farmsteads.
past the phantom ship, on the deck of which are The second picture is by George Henry, and is
Death and Life contending for him. The colour called Rowans, showing some young girls in a
arrangement is cleverly managed, and the story is woodland gathering bright coloured berries. It
dramatically told. is a characteristic picture, displaying well the artist's
beautiful sense of colour and masterly technique.
LASGOW. —The members of the D- M-
Royal Scottish Water-colour Society
have had a busy time of it lately ^-DINBURGH.—In local art circles here
as, following on their annual elec- I i the general interest has been kept
tion of new members, when G. I ' alive by quite a number of events
Naismith Langlands and Miss Wyper were elected, . such as, first, the election of five
they have had a special business meeting at Lin- associates, Messrs. John Lavery,
lithgow to elect two honorary members, to wit, Sir painter, W. G. Stevenson, sculptor, H. J. Blanc,
John Millais, P.R.A., and J. W. North, A.R.A. It William Leiper and John Honeyman, architects,
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