Studio: international art (16.1899)

Studio- Talk

observation of the individualities of his sitters, and
gives the peculiar atmosphere of Dutch life with
absolute appropriateness. The exhibition of his
drawings at Messrs. Dowdeswell's gallery is fasci-
nating as a statement of his creed, and shows
persuasively with what consistent taste he illustrates
his convictions. His work is characteristically
Dutch in its precision and love of detail, but is
somewhat exceptional in its gaiety and delicacy of
colour. It has all the tenderness of tone that
belongs to the school with an additional charm of
brilliant combination. It is quite in the fitness
of things that with his particular tendencies Mr.
Jungmann should be turning his attention to fresco
painting; he is especially suited for this branch of
art practice. Those works he has already executed
in this method are in every way excellent; and he

is shortly to carry out an important series of wall
decorations for a music salon at Brussels, a series
of life-size figures of the people of Volendam and
Zealand.

The decorative panel by Mr. Stanley N. Babb,
of which a reproduction is given, is the one with
which, at the end of last year, he gained the prize
for a " modelled design of figures and ornament "
in the annual competition among the students of
the Royal Academy. It is a good example of
florid ornamentation, erring perhaps a little in the
direction of an unduly pictorial treatment, but
handled with considerable vigour and designed
with a clear understanding of the value of line.
As the production of a young artist it is full of pro-
mise, and seems to foreshadow something a little

FROM A WATER-COLOUR
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(By permission of Messrs. Dowdeswell &* Dowdcsiuell)

BY NICO JUNGMANN