DOI Heft:
No. 38 (May, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0252
Studio- Talk
and rendering of the drapery, in balance of practically complete, wanting only small details of
masses and disposition of lines there is all the elaboration. Its interest not only to collectors of
grace of feeling and power of drawing which made Lord Leighton's work, but to all students of art
memorable the best work of the period in which history as well, is extreme, and therefore there is
his physical energies were as yet unaffected. No cause for congratulation in the fact that the picture
characteristic of his subtle craft is lacking; and, is to be at once reproduced. It belongs now to
indeed, there is nothing to suggest that in this the Fine Art Society, and on their behalf Mr. Scott
Bridgewater is engaged in
the preparation of a mezzo-
tint plate which will worthily
serve as a most appropriate
memorial of a great artist.
It is fortunate for the re-
putation abroad of the Eng-
lish school of landscape
painting that so many of
the best canvases of our
greater artists who devote
themselves to this branch
of work find their way to
one or other of the two
Salons. Mr. Alfred East
has sent to Paris this year
a landscape which is
thoroughly representative,
and is, besides, a very suc-
cessful example of the par-
ticular type of romantic
expression of Nature in
which he believes. The
study for this picture is
reproduced here, and gives
a more than adequate sug-
gestion of the composition
and tone relations of a very
well-considered piece of
Nature painting. Without
formality or evidence of pre-
conceived idea of what land-
scape arrangement should
be, it has the great merit of
possessing both dignity of
design and thoroughly well-
PERCY, SON OF G. WYNDHAM, ESQ., M.P. BY P. BURNE-JONES judged placing of the faCtS
of the composition. It is,
piece of work is seen the last expression of those in short, an intelligent statement of a subject which
convictions which had made his art a thing apart has been chosen with discretion and thought out
from that of almost all his contemporaries. with especial care; and it is equally a statement
of the principles which have aided to make our
The picture for which this is a study occupied English landscapes so widely appreciated by foreign
him to the moment when the rapid aggravation of artists of the better sort,
his malady caused him finally to lay down' his -
brush. When this moment came the work was Mr. Philip Burne-Jones is making something ot
2.;6
and rendering of the drapery, in balance of practically complete, wanting only small details of
masses and disposition of lines there is all the elaboration. Its interest not only to collectors of
grace of feeling and power of drawing which made Lord Leighton's work, but to all students of art
memorable the best work of the period in which history as well, is extreme, and therefore there is
his physical energies were as yet unaffected. No cause for congratulation in the fact that the picture
characteristic of his subtle craft is lacking; and, is to be at once reproduced. It belongs now to
indeed, there is nothing to suggest that in this the Fine Art Society, and on their behalf Mr. Scott
Bridgewater is engaged in
the preparation of a mezzo-
tint plate which will worthily
serve as a most appropriate
memorial of a great artist.
It is fortunate for the re-
putation abroad of the Eng-
lish school of landscape
painting that so many of
the best canvases of our
greater artists who devote
themselves to this branch
of work find their way to
one or other of the two
Salons. Mr. Alfred East
has sent to Paris this year
a landscape which is
thoroughly representative,
and is, besides, a very suc-
cessful example of the par-
ticular type of romantic
expression of Nature in
which he believes. The
study for this picture is
reproduced here, and gives
a more than adequate sug-
gestion of the composition
and tone relations of a very
well-considered piece of
Nature painting. Without
formality or evidence of pre-
conceived idea of what land-
scape arrangement should
be, it has the great merit of
possessing both dignity of
design and thoroughly well-
PERCY, SON OF G. WYNDHAM, ESQ., M.P. BY P. BURNE-JONES judged placing of the faCtS
of the composition. It is,
piece of work is seen the last expression of those in short, an intelligent statement of a subject which
convictions which had made his art a thing apart has been chosen with discretion and thought out
from that of almost all his contemporaries. with especial care; and it is equally a statement
of the principles which have aided to make our
The picture for which this is a study occupied English landscapes so widely appreciated by foreign
him to the moment when the rapid aggravation of artists of the better sort,
his malady caused him finally to lay down' his -
brush. When this moment came the work was Mr. Philip Burne-Jones is making something ot
2.;6