DOI Heft:
No. 51 (June 1897)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0065
Studio- Talk
represented in London exhibitions. Here is a
chance for the New Gallery. If it could only col-
lect an adequate number of the Scotch pictures
which are at present welcomed in Continental
galleries, it would soon re-establish its reputation
as a place where art that is out of the common
run is annually available for study.
To commemorate the eightieth birthday of a great
English painter in a wholly appropriate way has been
the last successful achievement of Mr. J. Caswall-
Smith, whose photographic triumphs—and they are
not few—show nothing quite so fine. The scene is
Limnerslease, the home of Mr. G. F. Watts, R.A.
The beautiful majolica by Delia Robbia, in the wall
above the garden seat, was a gift to him from
a well-known lady. How admirably the accessories
suit the working costume of the painter himself
can be seen from this excellent photograph.
For its own merits as a photograph, for its
beauty as a composition, and above all as record
of the octogenarian we all reverence, it is worthy of
being treasured.
The beautiful tryptich with enamel panels in the
Royal Academy shows Mr. Alexander Fisher at
his best. His panels are always satisfactory, but
sometimes they seem to lack a sufficiently related
setting. Here, as in the exquisite girdle illustrated
recently, the whole is as great as its parts. The
suggestiveness of the theme is so delightfully
clear in its expression, that it would be a waste of
words to call attention to the poppies of sleep, or
the three angels who bear the last best gift of the
gods to weary men. It is very hopeful to find a
subject of this order treated poetically in a broad
way, and the absence of trifling conceits, which
grow tiresome when every detail preaches an
obvious allegory, is not less commendable. Mr.
Fisher is one of the strongest forces in our new
decorative movement, hence each new work raises
expectations anew ; and when, as in this case, they
are not merely satisfied, but surpassed, it is better
TRY? riCH, IN STEEL AND TRANSLUCENT ENAMEL BY ALEXANDER FISHER
51
represented in London exhibitions. Here is a
chance for the New Gallery. If it could only col-
lect an adequate number of the Scotch pictures
which are at present welcomed in Continental
galleries, it would soon re-establish its reputation
as a place where art that is out of the common
run is annually available for study.
To commemorate the eightieth birthday of a great
English painter in a wholly appropriate way has been
the last successful achievement of Mr. J. Caswall-
Smith, whose photographic triumphs—and they are
not few—show nothing quite so fine. The scene is
Limnerslease, the home of Mr. G. F. Watts, R.A.
The beautiful majolica by Delia Robbia, in the wall
above the garden seat, was a gift to him from
a well-known lady. How admirably the accessories
suit the working costume of the painter himself
can be seen from this excellent photograph.
For its own merits as a photograph, for its
beauty as a composition, and above all as record
of the octogenarian we all reverence, it is worthy of
being treasured.
The beautiful tryptich with enamel panels in the
Royal Academy shows Mr. Alexander Fisher at
his best. His panels are always satisfactory, but
sometimes they seem to lack a sufficiently related
setting. Here, as in the exquisite girdle illustrated
recently, the whole is as great as its parts. The
suggestiveness of the theme is so delightfully
clear in its expression, that it would be a waste of
words to call attention to the poppies of sleep, or
the three angels who bear the last best gift of the
gods to weary men. It is very hopeful to find a
subject of this order treated poetically in a broad
way, and the absence of trifling conceits, which
grow tiresome when every detail preaches an
obvious allegory, is not less commendable. Mr.
Fisher is one of the strongest forces in our new
decorative movement, hence each new work raises
expectations anew ; and when, as in this case, they
are not merely satisfied, but surpassed, it is better
TRY? riCH, IN STEEL AND TRANSLUCENT ENAMEL BY ALEXANDER FISHER
51