Studio: international art (14.1898)

Studio- Talk

COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN PAINTED BY A. SMIDTII

praise than it was last year, for many of the pictures
that are to be seen there are of quite exceptional
importance. Mr. Alfred East shows in The Mystic
Pool what is, perhaps, the highest level of achieve-
ment to which he has as yet attained; and Mr. J.
S. Sargent is scarcely less strong than he is at the
Academy. Other canvases of great value are Mr.
J. J. Shannon’s portrait of Miss Des Clayes, Mr.
Arthur Melville’s large full-length of Mrs. Graham
Robertson, The Prioress's Tale and St. George, by
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Mr. M. P. Lindner’s
Breezy Holland, Mr. T. Austen-Brown’s The Grey
Mare, Mr. J. Coutts Michie’s Haytime, Mr. G. H.
Boughton’s Homeward, Mr. J. L. Pickering’s In
Russet Clad, Mr. A. D. Peppercorn’s The Common,
Mr. Leslie Thomson’s Arcadia, Mr. R. W. Allan’s
Cordova, Mr. Graham Robertson’s full-length of
Mr. C. Aubrey Smith in the costume of the Duke

Waterhouse’s Ariadne and Flora and the Zephyrs,
Mr. La Thangue’s A Sussex Cider-Press and
Nightfall, Mr. Sargent’s Asher Wertheimer, Esq.,
and Francis Cranmer Penrose, Esq., Professor Her-
komer’s The Guards' Cheer, Mr. E. A. Abbey’s
King Lear, Mr. David Murray’s Above the Mill
and A Summer Day, Mr. Waterlow’s Moorland
Road and Lonely Church, Mr. Orchardson’s Vis-
count Peel and Mrs. Pattison, Mr. Alfred East’s
Opulent Autumn and Evening Song, and Mr.
Napier Hemy’s Wreckage. In addition there are
many things which, if not in the first rank, are still
worthy of very great respect; and there is one of
the best collections of sculpture that has been
brought together for many years. The exhibition
is quite perceptibly above the average.

The New Gallery too is much more worthy of

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