Studio: international art (13.1898)

Studio- Talk

" THE SPIRIT OF THE PLAINS " BY S. LONG

Plains, and bright coloured Sea Idyll, there is It is somewhat curious that there are but two or

nothing, save some tentative nudes, which reveals three paintings dealing with Irish subjects. Mr.

any inclination towards imaginative design. At Henry Allan's large canvas, An Episode of the

present the dominant idea is that of straightforward Rebellion ofg8, is, however, strong enough to make

realism; but, as time goes on, this, we may fairly up for the fewness in numbers. The powerful

expect, will be greatly modified, and with the de- drawing, the fine colouring, and the dramatic force

velopment of the national art will come more poetry of this noble picture justify the highest praise, and

and more variety of fancy. warrant the expectation that this young Academician

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will eventually take a foremost place in British art.

UBLIN. — The Royal Hibernian

Academy Exhibition now open is a The water-colour drawings are numerous, and

very good one, although the number manY of them are excellent, notably one, a charm-

of striking pictures is rather below inS ngure studY bY Miss Gertrude Hammond,

the average. Mr. Walter Osborne's ^.
portraits have attracted much attention, as also

have Mr. Catterson Smith's, and they have had to TT IVERPOOL.—R. E. Morrison occupies

face the trying ordeal of neighbourship with Mr. I a leading place here as a penetrative

John S. Sarjent's celebrated study of Ellen Terry as I and sympathetic portraitist, and his in-

Lady Macbeth. Mr. J. N. Bolton's excellent For- |_j dustl7 is Proved by the number of his

trait of Miss Florence Francis has escaped this test reGent achievements. Among these are

by being hung in another room, but it might with several presentation portraits of prominent local

more reason have been subjected to it than some men> including the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby,

of those placed in the large gallery. K-G-> K.C.B.; Sir John Willox, M.P.; John

Brancker, Esq., J.P., Chairman of the Mersey
Dock Board ; Captain J. Jackson, retiring Commo-
The collection includes an unusually large dore of the Alfred Booth Line ; besides portraits of
amount of work from Scotland, some of the land- James W. Lowther, Esq., M.P., Sir Thomas
scapes sent by members of the R.S.A. being very Hughes, ex-Lord Mayor of Liverpool, and others,
powerful in many respects. Several of these have In each instance the character of the sitter is con-
been given richly deserved places of honour, vincingly told. Advanced technical skill is dis-
Perhaps the most remarkable are from the easels played in the manual execution, the eye is satisfied
of Mr. Patrick Adam, Mr. C. W. Nicholls, Mr. with refined harmony of colour, and in the simple
Pollock Nisbet, and Mr. Rattray. accessories the picture is nearly always composed

——— with a fine taste. The portrait of Hall Caine,

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