DOI Heft:
No. 49 (April, 1897)
DOI Heft:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0193
Studio-Talk
desire to realise the larger and grander features of attracting both artists and the general public. His
nature. Her most noteworthy pictures were those Wanderings in Italy, one hundred and thirty-
which she had painted on Dartmoor, where the scale eight pictures lately on view at the Fine Art Society,
of everything is large and simple. In such bare were a most delightful series of personal impressions
moorland subjects everything almost depends upon of picturesque places. He is gifted with the happy
the manner in which the atmospheric qualities are instinct to choose an unhackneyed point of view,
expressed, and Miss Elias arrived at her best results and imparts to each picture a certain local colour,
by leaving out unimportant detail, and by aiming which takes you to the spot itself; he must needs
especially at exactness of gradation and proper be a very churlish visitor who did not frankly enjoy
balance of light and dark. She is certainly a painter this tour through Italy by proxy. As some portraits
of open-air nature with a more than usually keen of people you have never seen convince you of
judgment of what is most right in landscape art, their true likeness, so whether you knew the subject
and her work, therefore, is important enough to of Mr. Rimington's painting or not, it convinced
watch closely. you at once of its literal truth. Nor was this topo-
graphical verity gained in any way conflicting with
Mr. Wallace Rimington should be peculiarly art; as schemes of colour, judiciously mastered
happy, for he has secured the rare distinction of technique, and pleasant pictures to live with, the
show was distinctly a fresh triumph.
To please all men is hard, and
sometimes dangerous to the artist;
yet one who has achieved the rare
feat, may be congratulated. The
specimen reproduced here shows
how good is the composition and
lighting of Mr. Wallace Rimington's
work, even when colour is absent.
An artist whose work has some-
thing more than the ordinary degree
of vitality deserves attention at a
time when the tendency towards
merely lifeless imitation is a matter
for lamentation. For this reason
Mr. Sanderson Wells claims a few
words of notice. In his Fishing
Boats leaving Whitby, without losing
balance and right proportion, and
without forgetting the proper prin-
ciples of composition, he has secured
a very pleasant irregularity and
quaintness which express the variety
of his subject far more satisfactorily
than would have been possible with
less independence of thought.
The Autotype Company has been
very active of late, and is adding to
its list in a way that comes as a sur-
prise when you enter its show-room,
expecting to find chiefly blameless,
but somewhat over-popular master-
pieces. The fine portrait of Mr. J.
M. Barrie, painted by Mr. Leslie
'la fortezza sarzaxa" uv "'allace rimington Brooke, which is reproduced here-
185
desire to realise the larger and grander features of attracting both artists and the general public. His
nature. Her most noteworthy pictures were those Wanderings in Italy, one hundred and thirty-
which she had painted on Dartmoor, where the scale eight pictures lately on view at the Fine Art Society,
of everything is large and simple. In such bare were a most delightful series of personal impressions
moorland subjects everything almost depends upon of picturesque places. He is gifted with the happy
the manner in which the atmospheric qualities are instinct to choose an unhackneyed point of view,
expressed, and Miss Elias arrived at her best results and imparts to each picture a certain local colour,
by leaving out unimportant detail, and by aiming which takes you to the spot itself; he must needs
especially at exactness of gradation and proper be a very churlish visitor who did not frankly enjoy
balance of light and dark. She is certainly a painter this tour through Italy by proxy. As some portraits
of open-air nature with a more than usually keen of people you have never seen convince you of
judgment of what is most right in landscape art, their true likeness, so whether you knew the subject
and her work, therefore, is important enough to of Mr. Rimington's painting or not, it convinced
watch closely. you at once of its literal truth. Nor was this topo-
graphical verity gained in any way conflicting with
Mr. Wallace Rimington should be peculiarly art; as schemes of colour, judiciously mastered
happy, for he has secured the rare distinction of technique, and pleasant pictures to live with, the
show was distinctly a fresh triumph.
To please all men is hard, and
sometimes dangerous to the artist;
yet one who has achieved the rare
feat, may be congratulated. The
specimen reproduced here shows
how good is the composition and
lighting of Mr. Wallace Rimington's
work, even when colour is absent.
An artist whose work has some-
thing more than the ordinary degree
of vitality deserves attention at a
time when the tendency towards
merely lifeless imitation is a matter
for lamentation. For this reason
Mr. Sanderson Wells claims a few
words of notice. In his Fishing
Boats leaving Whitby, without losing
balance and right proportion, and
without forgetting the proper prin-
ciples of composition, he has secured
a very pleasant irregularity and
quaintness which express the variety
of his subject far more satisfactorily
than would have been possible with
less independence of thought.
The Autotype Company has been
very active of late, and is adding to
its list in a way that comes as a sur-
prise when you enter its show-room,
expecting to find chiefly blameless,
but somewhat over-popular master-
pieces. The fine portrait of Mr. J.
M. Barrie, painted by Mr. Leslie
'la fortezza sarzaxa" uv "'allace rimington Brooke, which is reproduced here-
185