DOI Heft:
No. 52 (July, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0152
Studio- Talk
IENNA.—At the Kiinstlerhaus there is jr ELBOURNE.—There were some-
now on view Julius von Payer's pic- 1% /I thing like one hundred and eighty
ture of The Loss of the Franklin I \ / I exhibits at the last Spring Exhibi-
Expedition. It forms the latest work I V I tion of the Victorian artists, the
of the artist's series dealing with the majority being oils and the re-
exploration of the Polar regions, in which Payer mainder water-colours and black-and-white draw-
himself once took an active part in an Austrian ings. Sculpture was entirely unrepresented. Of
expedition under the leadership of Weyprecht, the portraits in oils, E. Phillips Fox exhibited the
which led to the finding of the unfortunate greatest number. Out of the five which he sent in,
Jeannette. To this personal experience must, no three were the portraits of children, the best being
doubt, be attributed the strong realistic effect Nancy, a harmonious study of a little girl in a
that all Payer's works are capable of producing large hat, seated against a dull background of
on the beholder. The artist painted the same yellowish-green hue. Mr. Fox always shows skill
subject some ten years ago and then called in dealing with these sombre colours, and excels in
the picture The Bay of Death. This is now low-toned harmonies. His best technique was dis-
surpassed by the present work of colossal pro- played in the portrait of a lady—a small head—the
portions, which contains the tragic description of sitter having been posed with her back to the artist,
the wreck of the last survivors of Admiral Sir her face in profile turned towards the left shoulder.
John Franklin's heroic followers. The handling in this work is decided and vigorous.
Tudor Tucker's principal picture was a large
figure subject to which he gave the title of Confi-
The picture represents the boat in which Cap- dences, and in it a story is suggested by the attitudes
tain Crozier and his crew had been half buried in of the two women, one a matured matron, who
the snow, with a Polar bear breaking in upon the has gone through experiences which enable her to
scene of death. Crozier (he, it is related by the receive and sympathise with the confidences whis-
Eskimos, escaped and lived among one of their pered to her by the maiden, whom Love has just
tribes for ten years) is represented, as the only found,
survivor, in the act of defending himself with his
gun. Two more bears are visible at some distance Miss J. M. Muntz, who returned a little while
on the snow, lit up by the glare of the cold light of ago from Europe, and who has worked in Professor
the moon and stars in the long Polar night. The Herkomer's studio, exhibited five pictures, one of
whole is grand and impressive in the highest the best being a portrait of a lady. The subject of
degree, and to find fault with some trifling details the portrait was a woman of evident intelligence,
would betray a petty spirit of criticism and oblige full of resolution and resource, and Miss Muntz
me to enter into a detailed description, which is has conveyed her force of character exceptionally
not within the limits of a
short note.
Julius von Payer's can-
vas is a work of very great
merit which will not be for-
gotten when the final tragic
narrative of heroic suffer-
ing and dauntless courage
comes to be told concern-
ing those explorations that
preceded the more success-
ful journey of the Fram
into those regions where
human genius and energy
are ever battling with the
forces of eternal winter.
W. S. "AFTER THE RAIN " FROM A PAINTING BY J. H. SCHELTEMA
r3T
IENNA.—At the Kiinstlerhaus there is jr ELBOURNE.—There were some-
now on view Julius von Payer's pic- 1% /I thing like one hundred and eighty
ture of The Loss of the Franklin I \ / I exhibits at the last Spring Exhibi-
Expedition. It forms the latest work I V I tion of the Victorian artists, the
of the artist's series dealing with the majority being oils and the re-
exploration of the Polar regions, in which Payer mainder water-colours and black-and-white draw-
himself once took an active part in an Austrian ings. Sculpture was entirely unrepresented. Of
expedition under the leadership of Weyprecht, the portraits in oils, E. Phillips Fox exhibited the
which led to the finding of the unfortunate greatest number. Out of the five which he sent in,
Jeannette. To this personal experience must, no three were the portraits of children, the best being
doubt, be attributed the strong realistic effect Nancy, a harmonious study of a little girl in a
that all Payer's works are capable of producing large hat, seated against a dull background of
on the beholder. The artist painted the same yellowish-green hue. Mr. Fox always shows skill
subject some ten years ago and then called in dealing with these sombre colours, and excels in
the picture The Bay of Death. This is now low-toned harmonies. His best technique was dis-
surpassed by the present work of colossal pro- played in the portrait of a lady—a small head—the
portions, which contains the tragic description of sitter having been posed with her back to the artist,
the wreck of the last survivors of Admiral Sir her face in profile turned towards the left shoulder.
John Franklin's heroic followers. The handling in this work is decided and vigorous.
Tudor Tucker's principal picture was a large
figure subject to which he gave the title of Confi-
The picture represents the boat in which Cap- dences, and in it a story is suggested by the attitudes
tain Crozier and his crew had been half buried in of the two women, one a matured matron, who
the snow, with a Polar bear breaking in upon the has gone through experiences which enable her to
scene of death. Crozier (he, it is related by the receive and sympathise with the confidences whis-
Eskimos, escaped and lived among one of their pered to her by the maiden, whom Love has just
tribes for ten years) is represented, as the only found,
survivor, in the act of defending himself with his
gun. Two more bears are visible at some distance Miss J. M. Muntz, who returned a little while
on the snow, lit up by the glare of the cold light of ago from Europe, and who has worked in Professor
the moon and stars in the long Polar night. The Herkomer's studio, exhibited five pictures, one of
whole is grand and impressive in the highest the best being a portrait of a lady. The subject of
degree, and to find fault with some trifling details the portrait was a woman of evident intelligence,
would betray a petty spirit of criticism and oblige full of resolution and resource, and Miss Muntz
me to enter into a detailed description, which is has conveyed her force of character exceptionally
not within the limits of a
short note.
Julius von Payer's can-
vas is a work of very great
merit which will not be for-
gotten when the final tragic
narrative of heroic suffer-
ing and dauntless courage
comes to be told concern-
ing those explorations that
preceded the more success-
ful journey of the Fram
into those regions where
human genius and energy
are ever battling with the
forces of eternal winter.
W. S. "AFTER THE RAIN " FROM A PAINTING BY J. H. SCHELTEMA
r3T