DOI Heft:
No. 38 (May, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0255
Studio- Talk
a new departure with small water colour portraits, congruity of line it is peculiarly happy. It is, in-
His little three-quarter length of Mrs. Beerbohm deed, because of its qualities of painting fit to
Tree, in the New Gallery, is good in colour and has quote as an example of the rapid advance which is
much merit as a study of character. He has, too, being made in technique by the members of the
in the same exhibition a small full-length of a boy more advanced school,
seated, Percy, Son of George Wyndham, Esq., MP.,
which is unaffected and easy in arrangement, and The silver and enamel casket by Mr. and Mrs.
of a size that would be convenient for placing in a Nelson Dawson, of which we give an illustration,
modern house, where the space available for family is intended for presentation to Lord Glenesk by the
portraits is limited. As a compromise between Worshipful Company of Plumbers. The casket is
miniatures and pictures inconveniently large, these in beaten silver, no cast work having been used
small drawings are certainly happy. except in the group of St. George and the Dragon,
- which was modelled by F. W. Pomeroy and cast
Mr. P. Wilson Steer is another artist whose in cire perdu. The motive for using hammer-
work needs neither introduction nor apology. He worked silver as much as possible here was to
is always original, and his sense of graceful arrange- obtain some of the fine quality observable in old
ment and colour harmony is rarely at fault. He is work such as the tankards of the King Charles
seen to advantage this spring at the New English period, and the teapots, cream ewers, &c, of Queen
Art Club; but nothing which he is at present Anne and the Georges. This work, which was
exhibiting surpasses in grace and technical merit executed before the age of mechanical contrivances,
the picture, hitherto unexhibited, which we illus- owes much of its interest to the beautiful surfaces
trate. In colour this is quite delightful, a harmony produced by hammering. The men, however, who
of warm browns, pale rose, and greys ranging up to are sufficiently skilled and artistic to be entrusted
absolute black; and in spontaneous grace and easy with such work are, unhappily, by no means plentiful
FROM A PAINTING
BY P. WILSON STEER
239
a new departure with small water colour portraits, congruity of line it is peculiarly happy. It is, in-
His little three-quarter length of Mrs. Beerbohm deed, because of its qualities of painting fit to
Tree, in the New Gallery, is good in colour and has quote as an example of the rapid advance which is
much merit as a study of character. He has, too, being made in technique by the members of the
in the same exhibition a small full-length of a boy more advanced school,
seated, Percy, Son of George Wyndham, Esq., MP.,
which is unaffected and easy in arrangement, and The silver and enamel casket by Mr. and Mrs.
of a size that would be convenient for placing in a Nelson Dawson, of which we give an illustration,
modern house, where the space available for family is intended for presentation to Lord Glenesk by the
portraits is limited. As a compromise between Worshipful Company of Plumbers. The casket is
miniatures and pictures inconveniently large, these in beaten silver, no cast work having been used
small drawings are certainly happy. except in the group of St. George and the Dragon,
- which was modelled by F. W. Pomeroy and cast
Mr. P. Wilson Steer is another artist whose in cire perdu. The motive for using hammer-
work needs neither introduction nor apology. He worked silver as much as possible here was to
is always original, and his sense of graceful arrange- obtain some of the fine quality observable in old
ment and colour harmony is rarely at fault. He is work such as the tankards of the King Charles
seen to advantage this spring at the New English period, and the teapots, cream ewers, &c, of Queen
Art Club; but nothing which he is at present Anne and the Georges. This work, which was
exhibiting surpasses in grace and technical merit executed before the age of mechanical contrivances,
the picture, hitherto unexhibited, which we illus- owes much of its interest to the beautiful surfaces
trate. In colour this is quite delightful, a harmony produced by hammering. The men, however, who
of warm browns, pale rose, and greys ranging up to are sufficiently skilled and artistic to be entrusted
absolute black; and in spontaneous grace and easy with such work are, unhappily, by no means plentiful
FROM A PAINTING
BY P. WILSON STEER
239