DOI Heft:
Nr. 44 (November 1896)
DOI Artikel:Jope-Slade, Robert: A man of Liverpool and his art
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17298#0105
A Man of Liverpool and his Art
sense—who doubtless owes his ultimate triumph
to Robert Fowler's generosity, praise, and rousing
exhortation in the dark hour when the world was
deaf and blind to him.
Some four or five miles from the studio at West
A charming and very attractive collection of
sketches by Alfred East, McColl, and Fred Hall
is here; and a host of quaintly whimsical and
most artistic things by David Woodlock, go well
with the Japanese series. A portiere on the door
"STARTLED" FROM A PAINTING BY ROBERT FOWLER, R.I.
Derby, Mr. and Mrs. Fowler find a home. Of of palest blue rich silk on which the light plays
hospitality and kindness one may only make hint a thousand winsome tricks,—a bird, jewelled
in a thing so dignified and businesslike as a mono- with scarlet, sits on branches of red-brown, which
graph upon a talented painter. The walls of the spread in ever-varying fashion; it is surely one of
drawing-room are covered with many minute and the most beautiful decorative fabrics that ever left
beautiful water-colours from various hands; kake- the Mikado's isles. In the dining-room you re-
mono's and articles of vertu from Japan abound, member a capital head and shoulders of the
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sense—who doubtless owes his ultimate triumph
to Robert Fowler's generosity, praise, and rousing
exhortation in the dark hour when the world was
deaf and blind to him.
Some four or five miles from the studio at West
A charming and very attractive collection of
sketches by Alfred East, McColl, and Fred Hall
is here; and a host of quaintly whimsical and
most artistic things by David Woodlock, go well
with the Japanese series. A portiere on the door
"STARTLED" FROM A PAINTING BY ROBERT FOWLER, R.I.
Derby, Mr. and Mrs. Fowler find a home. Of of palest blue rich silk on which the light plays
hospitality and kindness one may only make hint a thousand winsome tricks,—a bird, jewelled
in a thing so dignified and businesslike as a mono- with scarlet, sits on branches of red-brown, which
graph upon a talented painter. The walls of the spread in ever-varying fashion; it is surely one of
drawing-room are covered with many minute and the most beautiful decorative fabrics that ever left
beautiful water-colours from various hands; kake- the Mikado's isles. In the dining-room you re-
mono's and articles of vertu from Japan abound, member a capital head and shoulders of the
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