Studio: international art (16.1899)

Studio- Talk

appealing most convinc- ' "«r

ingly to every lover of

splendid achievement.

Such canvases as the Sun

rising in Mist, Dunstan-

borough Castle, The Trout

Stream, and Rosenau, and L

such drawings as The HL ;

Devil's Bridge and Chryses Hn i|-

worshipping the Sun, are iHHBh&fe. C *l| ifj>}

by themselves sufficient to llHBLjHHBb

justify the exhibition ; but,

as the collection altogether |pHBH^|9HHH|HHHHKik jjij a

includes thirty-eight pic- i '

tures and some eighty
drawings, the opportunity
it affords of studying the
mastery of the greatest
painter of nature that our

school has produced is of "the weeping tower, Amsterdam" by james maris

incalculable value. One
of the Guildhall galleries

is also given up to a group of paintings by the con- stitute ot Painters in Water Colours. An un-
temporaries of Turner, a group which includes necessarily large number of drawings have been
works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Romney, Gains- hung—nearly six hundred, without counting the
borough, Morland, Constable, Raeburn, Wilkie, contribution of the Society of Miniaturists—and
David Roberts, and Wilson, so that the exhibition the galleries are in consequence more closely
has a general, as well as a particular, interest. crowded than is at all desirable. If the collection

- had been of reasonably uniform excellence this

Quantity rather than quality is the most evident plethora of productions might have been endured,
characteristic of the exhibition of the Royal In- but as the few good things are swamped by a mass

of stuff that is, if not
actually incapable in
execution, at all events
devoid of all power to
attract, the chief feeling
that the show inspires is
one of weariness. Per-
haps a score of drawings
have qualities that claim
attention, and of these
certainly the most fascin-
ating are the dainty little
study, The Lute Player,
by Mr. E. J. Gregory ; A
Fisherman's Wife, by Pro-
fessor Hans von Bartels ;
The Sampler and St.
Valentine's Morning, by
Sir J. D. Linton; Mr.
Weedon's Waste Ground
near Lymington ; and the
landscapes by Mr. Pep-

the drawbridge " by james maris percorn and Mr. R. B.

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